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, he taught literature and theology in the Greek college in Rome established in 1577 by

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where he established (or revived) a Greek school. In 1651 he travelled to Palestine in the company of patriarch Paisius of Jerusalem, taking monastic vows and adopting the monastic name of ''Paisius''. In 1652, he received the titular office of Metropolitan of Gaza from Paisius. In 1655, he wrote a very long ''Chrismology hrismologionof Constantinople, the New Rome'', the first comprehensive collection of the mass of Greek oracular and prophetic produced in reference to the Fall of Constantinople . Paisios Ligarides is known as a trader of indulgences, which he sold in Russia. He was appointed as head of the

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in the form of a polemical essay in support of the absolute authority of the Russian Tsar in theological matters.William Palmer (trans.), ''History of the Condemnation of the Patriarch Nicon By a Plenary Council of the Orthodox Catholic Eastern Church Held at Moscow A.D. 1666–1667'' (1873). He was succeeded by

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*Constantine Sathas, ''Νεοελληνική Φιλολογία: Βιογραφία των εν τοις γράμμασι διαλαμψάντων Ελλήνων (1453-1821)'' Athens (1868), 814–816. *Andronikos Dimitrakopoulos, ''Ορθόδοξος Ελλάς'' (1872), 161f. * *V. Grumel, "Ligaridès, Paisios" in: ''Dictionnaire de Theologie Catholique'', Paris (1930–1950) vol. IX, 749–757. *Gerhard Podskalsky, ''Griechische Theologie in der Zeit der Türkenherrschaft (1453-1821)'' (1988)
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*Harry T. Hionides, ''Paisius Ligarides'' (1972). {{authority control 17th-century Greek Patriarchs of Alexandria 17th-century people from the Ottoman Empire 1610 births 1678 deaths Clergy from Chios 17th-century Greek clergy Eastern Orthodox theologians Catholic–Eastern Orthodox ecumenism Year of birth uncertain Writers from Chios 17th-century Greek writers 17th-century Greek educators Pontifical Greek College of Saint Athanasius alumni