Jeremias II of Constantinople
Jeremias II Tranos | |
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Church of Constantinople | |
| In office | 5 May 1572 – 23 November 1579 August 1580 – 22 Febr 1584 April 1587 – September 1595 |
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| Consecration | c. 1568 |
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| Born | c. 1536 |
| Died | 4 September 1595 Constantinople |
| Previous post(s) | Bishop of Larissa |
Jeremias II Tranos (Greek: Ἰερεμίας Τρανός; c. 1536 – 4 September 1595) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople three times between 1572 and 1595.
Life
Jeremias Tranos was born in Anchialos, from an influential Greek family. The exact date of birth is not known, most probably 1530, but some scholars suggest 1536.[1] He studied with the best Greek teachers of his age, and in his youth he became a monk. Supported by the rich Michael Cantacuzene, he was appointed bishop of Larissa on about 1568.[1]
When Cantacuzene obtained the deposition of Patriarch
Metrophanes III died in August 1580,
In the winter between 1583 and 1584 Jeremias was subject of a conspiracy of some Greek bishops against him, led by
Thanks to the intercession of the French ambassador, in 1586 Jeremias obtained the freedom from the exile in Rhodes and started his travel through the
In the meantime, after 1584 Jeremias's deposition of two other patriarchs followed,
On 12 February 1593 a synod in Constantinople sanctioned the Autocephaly of the Patriarchate of Moscow.[4] The exact date of Jeremias' death is not known, but it occurred between September and December 1595, in Constantinople.
Greek Augsburg Confession
From 1576 to 1581 he conducted the first important theological exchanges between Orthodoxy and Protestants. On 24 May 1575,
References
- ^ ISBN 2-7063-0210-0.
- ^ a b R. Janin (1956). "Costantinople, Patriarcat grec". Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques. Vol. 13. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. 632,677.
- ^ a b c L. Petit (1924). "Jérémie II Tranos". Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique. Vol. 8. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. 886-894.
- ^ a b Athanasios Paliouras. "Jeremias II". Ecumenical Patriarchate. Retrieved 28 May 2011.
- ^ ISBN 0-916458-92-X.
- ^ Jeremiah II of Constantinople
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4344-5876-6.
- ISBN 0-14-014656-3.
Further reading
- Mastrantonis, George (1982). Augsburg and Constantinople: the correspondence between the Tubingen theologians and Patriarch Jeremiah II of Constantinople on the Augsburg Confession. Brookline, Mass.: Holy Cross Orthodox Press. OCLC 7773300.
External links
- Tibbs - Patriarch Jeremias II, the Tübingen Lutherans, and the Greek Version of the Augsburg Confession
- Schaff - The Answers of Patriarch Jeremiah to the Lutherans, A.D. 1576
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