![]() ![]() 5 He received the tonsure as a monk at Mount Athos, where he studied the art of icon painting according to the Byzantine erminia. ![]() Sylvester’s mother was the sister of Patriarch Athanasios III Dabbās, who took care of his education and consecrated him a deacon, an archdeacon, 4 a priest, and a protosynkellos of the Antiochian Patriarchate. 3 He mentioned their names in the Arabic inscription on an icon that he donated in 1747 to the St Spyridon Monastery of Bucharest, after it was given as a metokion to the Church of Antioch by the Wallachian prince Constantin Mavrocordat (1746). Sylvester was born around 1680 in Cyprus, of Greek parents, Giorgis and Fotini. ![]() I present henceforth an overview of these reports, as a background for the comments to follow. The letter collection provides rich information on the Patriarch’s travels and activities in the Romanian lands. 1 I discussed later, in an article in Revue des études sud-est européennes, 2 the letters preserved in a miscellany due to Mūsā Ṭrābulsī, a secretary of Patriarch Sylvester, which he had exchanged with Antiochian hierarchs and monks. In a book published in 2016 that I dedicated to the early Arabic printing achieved by several hierarchs of the Antiochian church in the Romanian Principalities, with help from major local printers, I included a chapter about the travels of Patriarch Sylvester of Antioch and his printing work in Iași and Bucharest. 1 Patriarch Sylvester of Antioch and his journeys to the Romanian lands ![]()
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