Theophanes III of Jerusalem
The Dimitsanite Theophanes Karakallos becomes Patriarch of Jerusalem, expanding the village’s ecclesiastical story beyond 1821.
Why it matters
It shows that Dimitsana’s ecclesiastical influence was already visible in the early Ottoman centuries.
Theophanes Karakallos, associated in biographical tradition with Dimitsana and born around 1570, became Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1608 and served until 1644. His patriarchate connects Dimitsana with the wider Orthodox world of Jerusalem, Moscow and the eastern Mediterranean.
His entry broadens the timeline’s church history: Dimitsana produced major ecclesiastical figures before Gregory V and Germanos of Old Patras.