March 1206-1213 A.D. Michael IV Autoreianos—Constantinople’s 126th; Well Educated; Lived Through Sack of Constantinople in 4th Crusade
March 1206-1213 A.D. Michael IV Autoreianos—Constantinople’s 126 th ; Well Educated; Lived Through Sack of Constantinople in 4 th Crusade Michael IV of Constantinople From Wikipedia, the free Michael IV Autoreianos ( Greek : Μιχαήλ Ἀ υτωρειανό ς ) was the Patriarch of Constantinople from 1206 [1] to his death in 1212. Michael was a well-educated man and a member of the literary circle around Eustathius of Thessalonica . In the ecclesiastic hierarchy, he had reached the post of megas sakellarios at the time of the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. [2] According to a letter written by John Apokaukos in 1222, he was nominated bishop of Amastris , but David Komnenos rejected his nomination as an infringement of his sovereignty. [3] In 1208 he was made patriarch by Theodore I Laskari...