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[[Image:StJohntheMerciful.jpg|right|frame|St. John the Merciful]]
Our father among the saints '''John the Merciful''' was [[patriarch]] of Alexandria in the early 7th century, also known as '''John V of Alexandria'''. He gained his epithet from his unstinting generosity in distributing the vast wealth of the [[patriarchate]] of Alexandria to the poor and afflicted. The main source for his biography is a Life written by Leontius of Neapolis in Cyprus. John is commemorated in the Orthodox Church on [[November 12]].
==Early life and consecration as patriarch==
==Departure from Alexandria and death==
John voiced opposition to Heraclius' early attempts at promoting [[monoenergism]] as a compromise solution to the schism over Chalcedon, but did not participate in the major controversies that soon developed. He was forced to flee Alexandria by the Persian invasion of Egypt in 619. Returning to Cyprus, he died soon thereafter. A few years later much of John's work of reconciliation with the Non-Chalcedonians of Egypt was undone by the violent persecution instituted by Cyrus, who combined both imperial and ecclesiastical authority as dual prefect and patriarch of Alexandria.
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{{succession|
before=Theodore I|
title=[[List of Patriarchs of Alexandria|Patriarch of Alexandria]]|
years=609-620|
after=George I}}
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==Sources==
*The most recent scholarly study of [[Leontius of Neapolis]], the author of the main Life of John, is Vincent Deroche, ''Études sur Léontios de Néapolis,'' (Uppsala 1995).
*Online, entries can be found on Wikipedia at [[Wikipedia:St. John the Merciful|St. John the Merciful]] and on the Catholic Encyclopedia under [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08486a.htm St. John the Almsgiver].
==External links==
*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=103286 St John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria] ([[OCA]])
*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=288 John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria] ([[GOARCH]])
*[http://www.westsrbdio.org/prolog/my.html?month=November&day=12 St. John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria] (''[[Prologue of Ohrid]]'')
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