Ecumenical Patriarch Callinicus III Of Constantinople
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Callinicus III of Constantinople (; died 20 November 1726) was
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople () is the List of ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople, archbishop of Constantinople and (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches that comprise the Eastern Orthodox ...
for one day in 1726. He is sometimes not counted amongst the patriarchs, and Callinicus IV of Constantinople, who was Patriarch for a short time in 1757, is then numbered as the third of that name.


Life

Callinicus was a native of
Naxos Naxos (; , ) is a Greek island belonging to the Cyclades island group. It is the largest island in the group. It was an important centre during the Bronze Age Cycladic Culture and in the Ancient Greek Archaic Period. The island is famous as ...
and before he was elected as Patriarch of Constantinople he was Metropolitan of Heraclea. When Jeremias III of Constantinople was deposed on 19 November 1726, Callinicus was elected as Patriarch on the evening of the same day, but he died in the night at his home before the enthronement, possibly from a heart attack due to the happiness at his election. The appointment fee that he had to pay to the
Ottoman Sultan The sultans of the Ottoman Empire (), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to Dissolution of the Ottoman Em ...
to allow his election was the maximum ever reached: no less than 36,400
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, about 5,600 gold pounds. The high amounts of these appointment fees, that the Greek Church could barely afford, were due both to the greed of the Ottoman rulers and to the rivalries and quarrels into the Greek community which led to rapid changes and re-installments of Patriarchs. After the scandal due to a such large amount wasted for a single day reign, the situation slowly improved with longer reigns and lower fees.


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1726 deaths People from Naxos Year of birth unknown 18th-century ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople {{EasternOrthodoxy-bishop-stub