Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius I of Constantinople (born 1230)

Athanasius I of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1289 to 1293 and from 1303 to 1309

Athanasius I of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two terms, from 1289 to 1293 and from 1303 to 1309. He was born in Adrianople and died in Constantinople. Chosen by the emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos as patriarch, he opposed the reunion of the…