Maximus II of Constantinople

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Maximus II of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Church Church of Constantinople
In office3 June 1216 – December 1216
Predecessor Theodore II of Constantinople
Successor Manuel I of Constantinople
Personal details
DiedDecember 1216

Maximus II (Greek : Μάξιμος; died December 1216) was Patriarch of Constantinople from June to December 1216. He had been abbot of the monastery of the Akoimetoi and was the confessor of the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris before he became patriarch. George Akropolites and Xanthopoulos are highly critical of Maximus, suggesting that he was "uneducated" [1] and that the only reason he was made patriarch was his intrigue into the palace's women's quarters. Akropolites writes that he "paid court to the women's quarters and was in turn courted by it; for it was nothing else which raised him to such eminence." [2] Maximus was Patriarch-in-exile as at the time his titular seat was occupied by the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, and he lived in Nicaea. He died in office after only six months on the patriarchal throne.

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References

  1. Xanthopoulos (PG 147.465b)
  2. George Akropolites Ruth Macrides, ed). The History. Oxford: University Press, 2007, pp. 159–161.
Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by Patriarch of Constantinople
In exile at Nicaea

1216
Succeeded by