Gerasimos

Gerasimos (Greek: Γεράσιμος), latinised as Gerasimus and sometimes anglicised as Gerassimos, is a Greek given name derived from "γέρας" ("géras", "gift of honour, prize, reward"). The suffix -ιμος gives the meaning "the one who deserves honour".

Saints

Gerasimus of the Jordan, monk and abbot of the 5th century; saint
Gerasimos, Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Symeon, Christian author in Arabic, 12th/13th century; saint
Gerasimos of Euripos, Orthodox monk, disciple of Gregory of Sinai, missionary in Greece during Frankish occupation (c. 1320s); saint
Gerasimus of Kefalonia, and monk of the 16th century from the Greek island of Kefalonia; saint

Orthodox patriarchs and bishops

Patriarch Gerasimus

Patriarch Gerasimus or Patriarch Gerasimos may refer to:

Patriarchs of Constantinople

Gerasimus I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1320–1321
Gerasimus II of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1673–1674
Gerasimus III of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch in 1794–1797

Patriarchs of Alexandria

Patriarch Gerasimus I of Alexandria, ruled in 1620–1636
Patriarch Gerasimus II (Palladas) of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria in 1688–1710
Patriarch Gerasimus III of Alexandria, ruled in 1783–1788

Other Orthodox patriarchs

Gerasimus I, Serbian Patriarch, Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch in 1574–1586
Gerasimus I of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and later Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem in the late 19th century

Orthodox bishops

Metropolitan Gerasimos Avlonites, Greek Orthodox bishop of the Diocese of Arcadia in Crete in the 18th century
Gerasimos Michaleas, bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of America in the 21st century

Given name

More at "See also: #Related articles"

Gerasimos Vokos, a Greek writer
Gerasimos Arsenis, a Greek politician
Gerasimos Skiadaresis, a Greek actor

↑ Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott (1940). γέρας in A Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford, Clarendon Press, via perseus.tufts.edu.

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[1] Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott (1940). γέρας in A Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford, Clarendon Press, via perseus.tufts.edu.

Gerasimos

Saints

Orthodox patriarchs and bishops

Patriarch Gerasimus

Patriarchs of Constantinople

Patriarchs of Alexandria

Other Orthodox patriarchs

Orthodox bishops

Given name

See also

Related names; similarly sounding names

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