Isidore II of Constantinople
Isidore II of Constantinople | |
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Joasaph I[1] | |
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Born | unknown |
Died | 31 March 1462 |
Isidore II Xanthopoulos (Greek: Ἰσίδωρος Ξανθόπουλος; died 31 March 1462) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1456 to 1462.
Life
Little is known about the life and the patriarchate of Isidore except that he was an ethnic
spiritual father of the Greek community in Istanbul.[3] Immediately prior to his election, he was serving as the Metropolitan bishop of Heraclea.[5]
After the resignation of Gennadius Scholarius as Patriarch in mid-January 1456, Isidore was elected to succeed him. He obtained the confirmation from
Sultan Mehmed II, and he was consecrated bishop in the Pammakaristos Church.[6]
His reign lasted up to his death on 31 March 1462,Joasaph I.[1]
Notes
- ^ List of Patriarchs of Constantinople.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4344-5876-6.
- ^ .
- ^ Petrides, Sophrone (1911). "Documents sur la ropture de l'union de Florence". Échos d'Orient. 14: 205.
- ^ "Patriarcham factum renuntiavit Heracleensis praesul" - Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae: Historia Politica et Patriarchica Constantinopoleos, Ed. Niebuhr, B. G. (1849), pg. 95
- ^ "Isidore II". Ecumenical Patriarchate. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
Sources
- Kiminas, Demetrius (2009). The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs. Wildside Press LLC.
- Laurent, Vitalien (1968). "Les premiers patriarches de Constantinople sous la domination turque (1454-1476): Succession et chronologie d'après un catalogue inédit". Revue des études byzantines. 26: 229–263. .
- Runciman, Steven (1985) [1968]. The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.