Patriarch Maximus IV of Constantinople

Patriarch Maximus IV of Constantinople
Maximus IV
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Church Church of Constantinople
Appointed early 1491
Reign ended early 1497
Predecessor Dionysius I
Successor Nephon II
Personal details
Previous post Metropolitan of Serres

Maximus IV (Greek: Μάξιμος Δ΄), previously known as Manasses (Greek: Μανασσής), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1491 to 1497.

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Life

He was abbot of the Vatopedi monastery on Mount Athos before being appointed by Patriarch Symeon I as Metropolitan of Serres, which he governed under the religious name of Manasses. In the first months of 1491 he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople with the support of the monks of Mount Athos.[1]:198 Upon his election, he changed his name to Maximus, an unparalleled case in the history of the Ecumenical Patriarchate[2] because usually the religions name, taken when becoming a monk, is maintained throughout one's ecclesiastic career.

As Patriarch he defended the rights of the Orthodox living in territories under the Venetian Republic.[3] During his reign arose some pieces of gossip about him, not specified by the sources, which led to his deposition in early 1497.[4] After his resignation he remained actively involved with ecclesiastic issues, even plotting against his successor Nephon II, until he was forced to retire in the Vatopedi monastery, where he died at an unknown date.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Runciman, Steven (1985). The Great Church in captivity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 198. ISBN 9780521313100. 
  2. ^ Kiminas, Demetrius (2009). The Ecumenical Patriarchate. Wildside Press LLC. p. 37,46. ISBN 9781434458766. 
  3. ^ Haldon, John (2008). The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. p. 36. ISBN 9780199252466. 
  4. ^ B.G.Niebuhr, I.Bekker, ed (1849) [1584]. "Historia Politica et Patriarchica Constantinopoleos". Corpus scriptorum historiae byzantinae, Volume 49. Bonn. pp. 133–4. (Latin)
  5. ^ "Maximos IV". Ecumenical Patriarchate. http://www.ec-patr.org/list/index.php?lang=en&id=174. Retrieved 15 August 2011. 

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