Isidore II Xanthopoulos ( el, ), (? – 31 March 1462) was
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople ( Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of ...
from 1456 to 1462.
Life
Little is known about the life and the patriarchate of Isidore except that he was an ethnic
Greek
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and member of Greek community in Istanbul. His surname derives from the Xanthopoulon
monastery
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in
Istanbul
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which he entered, becoming a
hieromonk
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and later rising to be its
abbot
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. Isidore worked alongside
Gennadius Scholarius during the
Council of Florence and was one of the signatories of a 1445 document against the East-West Union of Churches. In this period Isidore was deemed the
spiritual father
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Confessor of the Faith
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Metropolitan bishop
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Originally, the term referred to the ...
of
Heraclea.
["Patriarcham factum renuntiavit Heracleensis praesul" - '']Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae
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: Historia Politica et Patriarchica Constantinopoleos'', Ed. Niebuhr, B. G. (1849), pg. 95
After the resignation of Gennadius Scholarius as Patriarch in mid-January 1456, Isidore was elected to succeed him. He obtained the confirmation from
Sultan Mehmed II
Mehmed II ( ota, محمد ثانى, translit=Meḥmed-i s̱ānī; tr, II. Mehmed, ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror ( ota, ابو الفتح, Ebū'l-fetḥ, lit=the Father of Conquest, links=no; tr, Fâtih Su ...
and he was consecrated bishop in the
Pammakaristos Church
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.
His reign lasted up to his death on 31 March 1462, and he was succeeded by
Joasaph I.
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1462 deaths
15th-century patriarchs of Constantinople
Year of birth unknown
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