Church: | Church of Constantinople |
Archbishop Of: | Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople |
Term: | 10 September 1191 – 7 July 1198 |
Predecessor: | Dositheus of Constantinople |
Successor: | John X of Constantinople |
Birth Date: | ? |
Death Date: | 7 July 1198 |
George II Xiphilinos or Xiphilinus (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Γεώργιος Ξιφιλῖνος; died 7 July 1198) was the Patriarch of Constantinople between 1191 and 1198 AD.[1] According to Balsamon, George, during the reign of Alexios I Komnenos, added one member to the Exocatacoeli (an office similar to the Catholic cardinal in the Greek Church of the time), making it six.[2]