Georgios 16 was a native of Sebaste (probably Samaria): Riedinger, p. 830 (= Mansi XI 684) (cited below). A priest and monk, he was apokrisiarios of Theodoros 23 (who was topoteretes, acting bishop, of the see of Jerusalem), on whose behalf he attended the Third Council of Constantinople (the Sixth Ecumenical Council) in 680 and 681; he attended all eighteen sessions of the council: Riedinger, pp. 16-822 (= Mansi XI 209-669). In the lists of those attending each session he is styled Γεωργίου τοῦ εὐλαβεστάτου πρεσβυτέρου μοναχοῦ καὶ ἀποκρισιαρίου (or similar) of Theodoros 23: Riedinger, p. 16, line 11 etc. (= Mansi XI 209, etc.) In the subscriptions to the statement of the faith, which condemned monotheletism, he is styled Γεώργιος ἐλάχιστος πρεσβύτερος ἐπέχων τὸν τόπον of Theodoros 23: Riedinger, p. 778, line 14 (= Mansi XI 640). In the subscriptions to the Council, he is styled Γεώργιος ἐλέει Θεοῦ πρεσβύτερος τῆς ἁγίας Χριστοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν Ἀναστάσεως, ἐπέχων τὸν τόπον of Theodoros 23: Riedinger, p. 822, lines 19-21, cf. 891, lines 2-4 (= Mansi XI 669, cf. 688). The Church of the Anastasis was the chief church at Jerusalem; cf. Beck, Kirche, p. 197. A monk and priest (μοναχὸς καὶ πρεσβύτερος) who represented the patriarch of Jerusalem at the Sixth Ecumenical Council: Photius, Ep. 1, lines 326-328. At the end of the tenth session of the Council (18 March 681) he proposed that the synodika of the former archbishop of Jerusalem, Sophronios (633/634-638), to the patriarch Sergios of Constantinople (610-641) be read out; this was deferred until the next session: Riedinger, p. 398, lines 11-18 (= Mansi XI 456) ( Γεώργιος ὁ θεοσεβέστατος πρεσβύτερος μοναχὸς καὶ ἀποκρισιάριος of Theodoros 23). At the start of the next session (March 20) he produced a book containing the synodika and this was read to the Council: Riedinger, p. 410, lines 5-11 (= Mansi XI 460-461). After the Council ended, a copy of the definition of the faith agreed by the Council was sent to the see of Jerusalem under Theodoros 23 via Georgios, who subsequently became patriarch of Antioch: Riedinger, p. 830, lines 13-16 (= Mansi XI 684) (διὰ Γεωργίου πρεσβυτέρου καὶ μοναχοῦ τοῦ Σεβαστηνοῦ ὅστις μετέπειτα καὶ πατριάρχης Ἀντιοχείας ἐγένετο; the remark about his patriarchate is clearly a marginal note which has entered the text). He was one of those who subscribed the copy of the definition of the faith sent to the bishop of Rome, Agatho 1: Riedinger, p. 891, lines 2-4 (= Mansi XI 688). Patriarch of Antioch: Riedinger, p. 830 (= Mansi XI 684) (cited above). He is said to have become patriarch of Antioch in the first year of the caliph Abdulmalik 1 and to have held the post for twenty-four years, until his death: Eutychius Alex. 1118A. This implies that his dates were from 685 to 709, but this is uncertain; he was probably patriarch sometime between 685 and 702; cf. Grumel, Chronologie, p. 447. He was patriarch in 692, when he attended the Quinisext Council in Constantinople and signed the canons: Ohme, Bischofsliste, p. 145, no. 5 (= Mansi XI 988) (Γεώργιος ἐλάχιστος ἐπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας ἤτοι Θεουπόλεως). He was apparently accompanied to the Council of Constantinople by Andreas 3, q.v., and cf. Theodoros 23. In Michael the Syrian II 452 the statement that the bishops at Constantinople "established another man in place of the bishop of Jerusalem" is a confused allusion to Georgios 16 and Theodoros 23. Cf. also Petros 17 for a similar appointment. Possibly identical with Georgios 7.

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