Manuel Opsaras Dishypatos or Disypatos () was the

metropolitan of Thessalonica The Metropolis of Thessaloniki () is a Greek Orthodox metropolitan see based in the city of Thessaloniki in Central Macedonia, Greece. It is part of the so-called "New Lands", belonging to the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constan ...

between 1258 and 1260/61. In 1258, he allegedly prophesied the rise to the imperial throne of

Michael VIII Palaiologos Michael VIII Palaiologos or Palaeologus (; 1224 – 11 December 1282) reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1261 until his death in 1282, and previously as the co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea from 1259 to 1261. Michael VIII was the founder of th ...

(r. 1259–1282), but in 1260 or 1261 he was deposed from his see as a supporter of Patriarch

Arsenios Autoreianos Arsenius of Constantinople ( Latinised as ''Arsenius Autorianus''; ; – 30 September 1273), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, lived about the middle of the 13th century. Born in Constantinople , Arsenius received his education in Nicaea ...

, who opposed Michael's sidelining of the legitimate emperor,

John IV Laskaris John IV Doukas Laskaris (or Ducas Lascaris) (; December 25, 1250 – 1305) was the fourth emperor of the Nicaean Empire from August 16, 1258 to December 25, 1261, one of the Greek successor states formed after the Sack of Constantinople by th ...

(r. 1258–1261). Dishypatos was banished and remained in exile probably until his death; he was still alive in 1275/76. He may be identical to the

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and ''

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'' who donated an

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of the

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held since 1440 in the Freising Cathedral. Dishypatos also composed the 14-verse dedicatory poem inscribed on the icon's silver-gilt revetment.

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