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- ↑ Jerusalem Patriarchate website, Apostolic Succession section
- ↑ http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/sbf/escurs/wwc/a.html Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Christ the King website, Patriarch of Jerusalem. (458-479).
- ↑ Holy Father Euthymius the Great .