Timotheus I of Jerusalem

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| birth_name = Timotheos Themelis

| birth_date = {{Birth year|1878}}{{cite news |title=Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jersulem, Timotheos Themelis. Dies in Holy Land |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47390383/obituary-for-russell-gordon-carter/ |access-date=Feb 25, 2022 |agency=The New York Times |date=Jan 3, 1956}}

| birth_place = Samos, Greece

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|12|31|1878}}

| death_place = Jerusalem

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| years_active = 1917–1935 Orthodox Archbishop of Jordan
1935–1955 Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem

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Timotheos Themelis (1878–1955) was a clergyman who served as Archbishop of Jordan and later Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.{{Cite web|url=http://www.openjerusalem.org/ark:/58142/1hCdv|title=Election of H.B. Timotheos Themelis - former Archbishop of Jordan - as Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem; on a Greek Orthodox Synod held in Jerusalem - Open Jerusalem}}{{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1938/mar/02/patriarch-of-jerusalem|title = Patriarch of Jerusalem. (Hansard, 2 March 1938)}}[https://jerusalem-patriarchate.info/πατριάρχης/ἀποστολική-διαδοχή/ Jerusalem Patriarchate website, Apostolic Succession section]

Born in Samos, Greece in 1878, Themelis was a graduate of the School of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, and studied at Oxford University for four years. In 1931 he founded the theological quarterly New Zion. In 1947 he was appointed Knight of the British Empire for "his services in bringing the Christian communities of the Holy Land into closer cooperation." He was also an author, writing fifteen volumes on "theological subjects."