Solomon 5 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Dates | 858 (tpq) / 863/864 (tpq) |
| Variant Names | Salomon |
| Locations | Jerusalem (officeplace); Jerusalem |
| Titles | Archbishop, Jerusalem (office); Bishop, Jerusalem (office); Patriarch, Jerusalem (office) |
| Textual Sources | Eutychius, Annales, Latin tr. in PG 111. 907-1156;Das Annalenwerk des Eutychius von Alexandrien. ...kompiliert von Sa'îd ibn Batrîq CSCO 471-472; Eutychii PatriarchaeAlexandrini Annales CSCO 50-51 (chronicle); Photius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters) |
Solomon 5 was the patriarch of Jerusalem from c. 858 to c. 863/864. Son of Zarkun, he became patriarch of Jerusalem in the fourth year of the caliph al-Mutawakkil 1 and occupied the see for five years: Eutychius Alex. 1137D-1138A. He is one of the unnamed joint addressees of the inaugural letter sent by the patriarch Photius (Photios 1) in spring 860 to the patriarchs of Alexandria (Michael 56) and Jerusalem and the synkellos of Antioch (Anonymus 602): Photius, Ep. 289 (III 121 Laourdas-Westerink) (addressed τοῖς θεοφιλεστάτοις συλλειτουργοῖς, τῷ θεοσεβεστάτῳ οἰκονόμῳ συγκέλλῳ τῆς Θεουπολιτῶν ἐκκλησίας). He was apparently a layman who was appointed patriarch of Jerusalem by Photius in 858/859: see Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Letter to pope Hadrian I, in Acts of 869, Mansi XVI.
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