March 1213-1215 A.D. Theodore II Eirenikos—Constantinople’s 127th; High Ranking Byzantine Official; Fled Constantinople after Crusaders’ Sack;
March 1213-1215 A.D. Theodore II Eirenikos—Constantinople’s 127 th ; High Ranking Byzantine Official; Fled Constantinople after Crusaders’ Sack; Openly Confronts Old Rome’s Lustophilic, Inconquerable & Impenitent Claim to Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (Then Like Now) Theodore II of Constantinople From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Seal of Theodore Eirenikos when he was hypatos ton philosophon , ca. 1208–1214 Theodore II Eirenikos ( Greek : Θεόδωρος Β' Ε ἰ ρηνικό ς ), also known as Theodore Kopas or Koupas (Κωπάς/Κουπάς), [1] was a high-ranking Byzantine official and chief minister during most of the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos (r. 1195–1203). After the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade , he fled to the Empire of Nicaea , where he became a monk and served as Patriarch of Constantinople in exile i...