Skeuophylax (Greek: σκευοφύλαξ), feminine form skeuophylakissa (σκευοφυλάκισσα), meaning "keeper of the vessels", is an ecclesiastical office in the Eastern...
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assistant known as the paraecclesiarch. An analogous office is that of the skeuophylax. In parishes, however, the sacristan is called sexton. In addition to...
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book, the journalist Dimitris Alikakos presents an interview with the skeuophylax Archbishop Isidoros of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in which the latter...
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hierarchy under Tarasios' successor, Nikephoros I, becoming a deacon and skeuophylax of the Hagia Sophia. After the start of the second period of the Byzantine...
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same time, it also acquired the prefix megas and replaced the megas skeuophylax as the second-most important official of the patriarchate. By the thirteenth...
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medieval persecution.": 107–116 Callinicus I, initially a priest and skeuophylax in the Church of the Theotokos of Blachernae, became patriarch of Constantinople...
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church treasury or chamber for the sacred furnishings entrusted to a skeuophylax) adjoining the church was built in 1684. Its broad esonarthex barrel...
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12th century, according to accounts by Nicholas Mesarites, the church's skeuophylax, and travellers such as Anthony of Novgorod, the collection had grown...
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offices in the ecclesiastical administration such as chartophylax or skeuophylax, but could also be held by monks. Kazhdan 1991, p. 1155. Kazhdan, Alexander...
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"grand"), the treasurer or [megas] sakellarios, the sacristan or [megas] skeuophylax, the record-keeper or chartophylax, and the head of the sakellion. Later...
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Michael or Mozalos Gabras, active ca. 1555–65, or Cyril Gabras, megas skeuophylax of the Patriarchate in 1604. Other family members are attested in Crete...
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Empire's chief depository of holy relics, which was defended by its skeuophylax, Nicholas Mesarites, with a small guard provided by John Komnenos. Mesarites...
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assassinated. Through the favour of the Patriarch Ignatius I, he was appointed skeuophylax (keeper of the sacred vessels—i.e., the official responsible for the...
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Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire (1453) took the functions also of the skeuophylax,: 176 taking care of the holy treasures and relics of the Patriarchate...
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attempted coup of John Komnenos the Fat. At the time, Mesarites was skeuophylax of the Church of the Pharos in the Great Palace of Constantinople, and...
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Constantinople Sittas Sixth Ecumenical Council Skafida, Battle of Skande Skeuophylax Skiathos Castle Skleros Skopje, Battle of Skorta Skouterios Slavery in...
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Lazaropoulos was about 21 years old. He was later made a sacristan (skeuophylax), married, and had two sons by 1340. Not long after the Emperor of Trebizond...
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