Anthimus VI of Constantinople explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Άνθιμος Στʹ (α) . 21 February 2024 . ec-patr.org . Κατάλογος Οικουμενικών Πατριαρχών [List of Ecumenical Patriarchs] . 25 July 2019 . Office of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople . el.
  2. Book: Kiminas, Demetrius . The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs . . 2009 . 9781434458766 . 30–44 . 21 February 2024.