Patriarch Cyril II of Jerusalem

Kyrillos II (* 1792 in Samos, Cezayir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, † 1877 in Istanbul) was 1845-1872 Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Born in 1792 on Samos as Konstantinos Kritikos and baptized Orthodox, he worked from 1816 deacon, presbyter and monastery understanders. In 1835 he was ordained Archbishop of Sebaste, in 1838 transferred to the cathedra of Lydia. 1845 elected him the Jerusalem Brotherhood of the Holy grave of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. Unlike his predecessors, he did not reside usually in Constantinople Opel, but resistant in the Holy City. Among his many pastoral activities include the establishment (1857 ) of the Theological School of the Holy Cross in the former Georgian Cross Monastery in Jerusalem. In 1872 he participated in the Council of Constantinople Opel in part, the. Ecumenical Patriarch Anthimos VI under the the Bulgarian Exarchate in 1870 furnished for schismatic explained and his supporters excommunicated. Kyrillos II refused his consent, and traveled on September 14, 1872 back to Jerusalem. On December 12 of this year he was relieved by the local synod in absentia in his office and replaced by Prokopios II, who in turn was sold on February 15, 1875 under pressure from the public. The supported by the Russians and the Orthodox Palestine arabophone popular Kyrillos refused on grounds of age for reelection from. He died on August 18, 1877 in Constantinople Metochion of the Holy Sepulchre and was buried there.