Dositheus II of Jerusalem
Dositheus II Notaras of Jerusalem was the Greek [Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem|Patriarch of Jerusalem] between 1669 and 1707 and a theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church. He was known for standing against influences of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. He convened the Synod of Jerusalem to counter the Calvinist confessions of Cyril Lucaris.
Dositheus was born in Arachova on 31 May 1641. Little of his early life is known. He was ordained a deacon in 1652 and elevated to archdeacon of Jerusalem in 1661. In 1666, he was consecrated archbishop of Caesarea Palestinae. In 1669, he was elected patriarch of Jerusalem.
He became very involved in the state of the Orthodox Church in the Balkans, Georgia, and southern Russia, particularly after Patriarch Cyril Lucaris of Constantinople set forth in his Confession of Faith his agreement in the doctrines of predestination and justification by faith alone. In 1672, Patriarch Dositheus convened the Synod of Jerusalem which rejected all the Calvinist doctrines and reformulated Orthodox teachings in a manner that distinguished them from Roman Catholicism as well as Protestantism.
In correspondence with Peter I of Russia, he objected to Peter's reforms that subjected the church to the state, particularly with his abolition of the Patriarchate of Moscow. Dositheus failed in his attempt to get Peter to intercede for the Eastern Orthodox Church in the peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire in 1700.
Dositheus was an "instancabile editore di cose non sue", "theologorum Graecorum opera non pauca prelo mandavit... fuit enim potius compilator et alienorum editor quam novorum auctor". The main works published during his life were a three-volumes collection of anti-Latin works: Τόμος καταλλαγῆς , Τόμος ἀγάπης , Τόμος χαρᾶς , all printed in Jaşi, 1692–1705.
Dositheus died in Constantinople on 8 February 1707. In 1715, his twelve-volume History of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem was published.