Callinicus V ( el, Καλλίνικος Ε΄) (dates of birth and death unknown) 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 th ...
from 1801 to 1806 and 1808 to 1809.
[''Αναφέρεται και ως Καλλίνικος Δ΄ από αυτούς που δεν συναριθμούν στους Πατριάρχες τον Καλλίνικο Γ΄, ο οποίος πέθανε στο άκουσμα της εκλογής του και δεν πρόλαβε να ενθρονιστεί. Βλέπε και]
Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Μείζονος Ελληνισμού
' He was
Metropolitan bishop
In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite), pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis.
Originally, the term referred to the b ...
of Adrianople (modern
Edirne
Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ...
) (1780–1792) and
Nicaea
Nicaea, also known as Nicea or Nikaia (; ; grc-gre, Νίκαια, ) was an ancient Greek city in Bithynia, where located in northwestern Anatolia and is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea (the first and se ...
(1792–1801).
References
Bibliography
*И. И. Соколов. Константинопольская церковь въ XIX вѣкѣ. Опытъ историческаго изслѣдованія. Т. I, СПб., 1904.
External links
Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο*Εγκυκλοπαίδεια «Υδρία», 1984, τόμος 30, σελίδα 173
Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Μείζονος Ελληνισμού
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Bishops of Nicaea
Bishops of Adrianople
18th-century Greek people
19th-century Greek people
19th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople
1809 deaths
People from Mudanya