Mosaics and inscriptions have confirmed the presence of Armenians in Jerusalem since the fourth century AD. By the seventh century an Armenian archbishop, recognized later as the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, was installed in the city. The Patriarch, custodian of the Armenian possessions in the Holy Land, resides in and is abbot of the ancient Monastery of St. James. A press was established there in 1833 to produce liturgical and religious texts.