May 1388-1390 A.D. Antony IV—Constantinople’s 151st; Macarius (1390-1391) Restored; Antony IV (1391-1397) Restored; Mt. Athos
May
1388-1390 A.D. Antony
IV—Constantinople’s 151st;
Macarius (1390-1391) Restored;
Antony IV (1391-1397) Restored;
Mt. Athos
Antony IV of
Constantinople
Sources
Antony IV of
Constantinople
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Antony IV (died May 1397) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two terms, from January 1389 to July 1390, and
again from early 1391 until his death.
He was originally a hieromonk, possibly from the Dionysiou monastery in Mount Athos. He was deposed during the usurpation of John VII
Palaiologos in
April 1390, and replaced by Macarius, who had already served in the office in 1377–1379. After the restoration
of John V
Palaiologos and Manuel II
Palaiologos a
few months later, he was restored to his post.
He is notable for his
correspondence with Jagiello, Grand Duke of Lithuania,
urging him to join in a crusade against the Turks along with the Hungarians, and
with Basil I of
Muscovy, to whom he defended not only
the universal spiritual authority of the Constantinopolitan patriarchate, but
also the universal authority of the Byzantine
emperors, regardless of the actual
diminished state of the Byzantine Empire.
Sources
·
Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford
Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, p. 125, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6
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