Manuel II of Constantinople
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Manuel II of Constantinople | |
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Church of Constantinople | |
In office | 1243 – 3 November 1254 |
Predecessor | Methodius II of Constantinople |
Successor | Arsenios Autoreianos |
Personal details | |
Born | ? |
Died | 3 November 1254 |
Manuel II (
In 1247–48 he wrote to the Armenian King
Manuel held, before his patriarchate, the position of protopapas among the ecclesiastics of the Byzantine court, then fixed at Nicea. Noted as a man of piety and holiness, "though married," Akropolites comments sourly that he was a man "who had no experience of letters, nor was able to unravel the meaning of what he read".[3] The three Sententice Synodales of the patriarch Manuel given in the Jus Graeco-Romanum undoubtedly belong to this patriarch.[4]
Manuel's death is distinctly fixed as having occurred two months before that of the Emperor John III Ducas Vatatzes, on 30 October 1255. The duration of his patriarchate is fixed by Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, at eleven years. George Akropolites and Xanthopoulos both suggest the throne was vacant "for some years" before Manuel was appointed.[5] It is therefore relatively certain Manuel died in office that year, before 3 November, 1255.
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- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 648. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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