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[[Image:Irenaios Skopeliti.jpg|right|Patriarch Irenaios I of Jerusalem]]
He was enthroned on [[September 15]], 2001, as the 140th ''Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, Syria, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee and Holy Zion'' in the presence of senior church and secular dignitaries, including Archbishop Christodoulos of the [[Church of Greece]] and Metropolitan Nicholas of the [[Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia]].
On [[May 24]], 2005, a special Pan-Orthodox [[synod]] was convened in Constantinople to review the decisions of the Holy Synod of Jerusalem. The Pan-Orthodox Synod under the presidency of Ecumenical Patriarch [[Bartholomew I (Archontonis) of Constantinople]] voted overwhelmingly to confirm the decision of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher and to strike Irenaios's name from the [[diptychs]], and on [[May 30]], Jerusalem's Holy Synod chose Metropolitan Cornelius of Petra to serve as ''[[locum tenens]]'' pending the election of a replacement for Irenaios.
On [[June 16]], 2005, Irenaios was [[laicization|laicized]] by Jerusalem's Holy Synod, reducing him to the rank of a [[monk]].
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[[Category:Bishops]]
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[[Category:Patriarchs of Jerusalem]]
