Manuel I of Constantinople

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Manuel I of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
ChurchChurch of Constantinople
In officeMay 1217 – May/June 1222
PredecessorMaximus II of Constantinople
SuccessorGermanus II of Constantinople
Personal details
Born
Manuel Sarantenos
DiedMay or June 1222
DenominationEastern Orthodoxy

Manuel I Sarantenos or Karantenos or Charitopoulos (Greek: Μανουὴλ Σαραντηνός/Καραντηνός or Χαριτόπουλος; died May or June 1222) was the Patriarch of Constantinople from May 1217 to May/June 1222.

Biography

He seems to have been called "the Philosopher",

sack of 1204, Manuel was a deacon and hypatos ton philosophon in Constantinople. This is likely the source of his epithet "the Philosopher".[1]

Under Manuel I, Saint Sava had become an archbishop and an autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church was formed in the territory of the Serbian Kingdom of Stefan the First-Crowned.

Manuel I is noted for his role in a diplomatic interplay between the

Maria of Courtenay, Robert I's sister, in 1217. Manuel I is thus reported by George Akropolites to have blocked the betrothal, twice negotiated, on religious-legal grounds: Robert, Theodore's brother-in-law, could not also become his son-in-law as this was an "illegal union" and constituted incest as it was within the third degree of kinship.[2]

Notes and references

  1. ^ George Akropolites (Ruth Macrides, The History, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 159-160.
  2. ^ George Akropolites (Ruth Macrides), The History, Oxford University Press, 2007, Editor's notes, p. 158.
Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
In exile at Nicaea

1217 – 1222
Succeeded by