At the time, the Church of Jerusalem was under the Abbasid Caliphate.
During the final years before the death of Patriarch Elias, Syncellus George sent a delegation to western Europe to Charlemagne to gain the help and protection of the Franks against the Muslims in the Holy Lands.
George was succeeded by the deacon Thomas Tamriq upon his death in 807.
George is listed as a saint only in the Palestinian-Georgian calendar, commemorated on April 7.
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