Church: | Church of Constantinople |
Archbishop Of: | Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople |
Term: | 16 December 1845 – 30 October 1848, 6 October 1853 – 3 October 1855, 17 September 1871 – 12 October 1873 |
Predecessor: | Meletius III of Constantinople, Germanus IV of Constantinople, Gregory VI of Constantinople |
Successor: | Anthimus IV of Constantinople, Cyril VII of Constantinople, Joachim II of Constantinople |
Birth Date: | 1782 |
Death Date: | 7 December 1877 |
Anthimus VI (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ἄνθιμος; born Ioannides; 17827 December 1877) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for three periods from 1845 to 1848, from 1853 to 1855 and from 1871 to 1873.[1] [2] He was born in Kutali Island in the Sea of Marmara and died in Kandilli.
Before becoming a Patriarch, Anthimus was a monk at the Esphigmenou monastery in Mount Athos, and became metropolitan bishop of Serres (1829), Prussa (1833) and Ephesus (1837). In 1845, he expanded the catholicon of the monastery, adding two chapels, a vestibule and a porch to it.