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unusual facts about Patriarch of Constantinople



Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow

In 1373, the Patriarch of Constantinople Philotheus Kokkinos picked him for his devout lifestyle and excellent education and sent him to Lithuania and Muscovy on a mission to reconcile the princes of Lithuania and Tver with Metropolitan Alexius.

Great Church

Roger E. Olson (1999) uses the term to refer to the Great Church at the time of the Council of Chalcedon (451) when the Patriarch of Constantinople and Bishop of Rome were in fellowship with each other.

Robert of Courtenay

He had been betrothed to Eudoxia on a former occasion; the circumstances surrounding the failed negotiations are unclear, but George Akropolites states that the arrangement was blocked on religious grounds by the Orthodox Patriarch Manuel Sarantenos: Robert's sister Marie de Courtenay was married to Emperor Theodore I Laskaris.

Supraśl Orthodox Monastery

Jeremias II Tranos, the Patriarch of Constantinople issued a special tomos sanctioning its foundation.


see also

Gregory V

Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808, and from 1818 to 1821

John the Grammarian

Ecumenical Patriarch John VII of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople from January 21, 837 to March 4, 843

Luka Zhidiata

Luka opposed the Kyivan Grand Princes' appointments of Hilarion and Efrem as metropolitans of Kyiv, not simply to oppose Kyiv, but because it was the prerogative of the Patriarch of Constantinople to name the Kyivan metropolitan.

Ohrid Archbishopric

Archbishopric of Ohrid, established in 1019, an autonomous archbishopric under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople, abolished in the 18th century by the Ottoman Empire.

Raphael I

Patriarch Raphael I of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1475 to 1476