Theophanes III of Jerusalem

In 1611, with a decree from the Ottoman sultan, Theophanes stopped the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem from taking over the celebration of the Holy Light.

[citation needed] Due to careless financial management by Serbian monks who lived at the Monastery of Saint Sabas, Theophanes sold religious heirlooms of value to avert surrendering the monastery and its metochion of the Archangel to the Latin and Armenian patriarchates.

According to Raphael Hawaweeny, Theophanes did not ordain any clergy in Jerusalem and Palestine except his compatriots, and especially his relatives.

He ordained his cousin Athanasius as the Metropolitan of Bethlehem, and his kinsman Paisios as an abbot of Galta Monastery in Yash.

When he passed away in Constantinople in the Jerusalem Metochion which he had built for himself, he was succeeded by his kinsman Paisios".