Meletius II of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1768 to 1769

His All Holiness

Meletius II

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Church| Church of Constantinople
Diocese| Constantinople
See| Ecumenical Patriarchate
Installed| 16 November 1768
Term ended| April 1769
Predecessor| Samuel
Successor| Theodosius II
Personal details
Born| unknown

Tenedos

Died| 5 January 1780
Istanbul
Denomination| Eastern Orthodox Church
Occupation| Ecumenical Patriarch

Meletius II (Greek: Μελέτιος; died 5 January 1780) served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople during the period 1768–1769.

He was born in Tenedos. From 1750 until 1768, he served as metropolitan bishop of Larissa and then was elected Ecumenical Patriarch. During the uprising of 1769, he was dismissed and was exiled to Mytilene. In 1775, with permission of the Sultan Mustafa III, he returned to Tenedos and in 1777 to Istanbul, where he died destitute in 1780.

He was probably buried on Tenedos. In the late 20th century, his fragmentary tombstone was discovered in the garden of North Bank, a mansion in Muswell Hill, London, where it may have been taken as a souvenir in the 19th century. In 2013, the stone was returned to Istanbul, in the custody of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.[1][2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Chrysostomides, Julian; Clogg, Richard; Dendrinos, Charalambos (2017). "The tombstone of an Ecumenical Patriarch in Muswell Hill, London: Meletios II (1700–80, r. 1768–9)". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 41 (2): 229–238.
2. ^ Clogg, Richard; Dendrinos, Charalambos (2018). "A newly discovered photograph of the tombstone of Patriarch Meletios II". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 42 (1): 184.

## Sources[edit]

* Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο
* Encyclopaedia Papyrus Larousse Britannica, 2007, vol. 35, p. 419

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