Anonymous Pilgrim V, Untitled 2.13
created: This entry is taken from Untitled 2.13 written by Anonymous Pilgrim V in 1180-12
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Cesariensem

,

Cesariensis

, and

Caesarea

are directly attested at Anonymous Pilgrim V, Untitled 2.13. This passage was written ca. 1180-1205 C.E. possibly in Palestine. We know next to nothing about the European traveller to the Holy Land called Anonymous Pilgrim V, whose account survives in one manuscript in Austria. The editor Wilhelm Neumann argued that, while his journey seems to have preceded the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 C.E., certain details reflect knowledge of the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. The work has two parts apparently written by the same author, the first giving a straightforward itinerary and the second a survey of the region’s ethnography, religions, and environment. This passage summarizes the ecclesiastical hierarchy in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, including the Archbishop of Caesarea.

Preterea et ipsa terra Ierosolymitana Patriarcham habet, qui est pater fidei et Christianorum et vicarius Ihesu Christi. Qui habet IIII archiepiscopos. Unum in provincia Palestina scilicet Cesariensem. Alium in provincia Fenicea, scilicet Tirensem. Tercium in provincia Galilea, scilicet Nazarenum. Quartum in provincia Moabitarum, scilicet Ponacensem id est de Monte Reali. Cesariensis habet Ι episcopum suffraganeum, scil. Sebastenum, ubi sepultus fuit Iohannes baptista et Eliseus et Abdias propheta. Tirensis ΙΙΙΙ habet suffraganeos: Acconensem, Sidonensem, Beritensem, et illum Bleinas, que est Cesarea Philippi. Nazarensis habet I Tiberiadensem, Ponacensis vero nullum Latinum, Grecum vero habet unum in monte Sina.

[Ed. Neumann 1866] [Heiligenkreuz Bibliothek 88]

Furthermore, the land of Jerusalem has a Patriarch, who is the father of the faith and Christians and is the vicar of Christ. He has four archbishops: one in the province of Palestine, namely, the Archbishop of Caesarea; the second in the province of Phoenicia, namely, the Archbishop of Tyre; the third in the province of Galilee, namely, the Archbishop of Nazareth, and the fourth in the province of Moab, namely, the Archbishop of Petra, or of Montreal. The Archbishop of Caesarea has one suffragan bishop, namely, the one of Sebaste, where John the Baptist, Elisha, and Abdias are buried. The Archbishop of Tyre has four suffragans: the bishops of Acre, Sidon, Beirut, and Bleinas, which is Caesarea Philippi. The Archbishop of Nazareth has one suffragan, the bishop of Tiberias, while the Archbishop of Petra has no Latin suffragan but a Greek one on Mount Sinai.

[Adapted from Stewart 1894]

Works Cited

[...] 267-268
[...] 30-31 2.13

[Acre

Beirut

Caesarea Philippi (Bleinas)

Galilee

Jerusalem

Moab

Nazareth

Palestine

Petra (Montreal)

Phoenicia

Samaria Sebaste

Sidon

Sinai, Mount

Tiberias

Tyre]

[Elisha the Prophet

Jesus Christ

John the Baptist

Obadiah the Prophet (Abdias)]

[Christian Bible

Christianity

Crusades

Geography

Government and Law

Hebrew Bible

Medieval History]