» For the Bulgarian enlightener see Sophronius of Vratsa. Sophronius (560 in Damascus – March 11, 638 in Jerusalem) (Σωφρόνιος in Greek) was the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 until his death, and's venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Before rising to the primacy of the see of Jerusalem, he was a monk and theologian who was the chief protagonist for orthodox teaching in the doctrinal controversy on the essential natur… (More on Sophronius)