Johannes de Galonifontibus explained

Type:Archbishop
Jean de Gillefontaine
Bishop of Nakhchivan
Church:Catholic Church
Diocese:Bishopric of Nakhchivan
Predecessor:John of Rouen
Successor:John III of Soltaniyeh
Rank:Bishop
Birth Place:Gaillefontaine, France
Appointed:1377
Honorific Prefix:The Most Reverend

Johannes de Galonifontibus was a Dominican friar active in the South Caucasus in March 1377.[1] He was appointed by Gregory XI on 9 March 1377 as Bishop of Nakhchivan. He is often mistaken for Archbishop of Sultaniya, John III of Soltaniyeh who was also a bishop of Nakhchivan because of Anton Kern, who published John III's Libellus de Notitia Orbis and tentatively associated him with his namesake.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=fY01Tc2SZVEC&pg=PA375&lpg=PA375 The Cambridge history of Iran William Bayne Fisher, Peter Jackson, Laurence Lockhart p.375
  2. A. Kern, ‘Der “Libellus de notitia orbis” Iohannes III (de Galonifontibus?) O.P. Erzbishofs von Sulthanyeh’, Archivium Fratrum Praedicatorum 8 (1938) pp. 81-123