Parthenius II of Constantinople (; died 16 May 1651) was

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for two periods (1644–1646, 1648–1651).

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relates that Parthenius II, before becoming Patriarch, wrote to

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in 1640: "To your Beatitude I render all due obedience and submission, acknowledging you to be the true successor of the leader of the Apostles, and the chief shepherd of the Catholic Church throughout the whole world. With all piety and obedience, I bow before your holy feet and kiss them, asking your blessing, for with full power you guide and tend the whole of Christ's chosen flock. So I confess and so I believe, and I am zealous that my subjects also should be such as I am myself. Finding them eager, I guide them in the ways of piety; for there are not a few who think just as I do". He was a partisan of Cyril I of Constantinople.Eleni Gara and Ovidiu Olar,
5. CONFESSION-BUILDING AND AUTHORITY: THE GREAT CHURCH AND THE OTTOMAN STATE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
, in ''Entangled Confessionalisations?'' (edited by Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu;

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, 2022). "The conciliatory policy of Parthenius I, who in March 1643 corroborated the revised version of

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's ''Orthodox Confession'' that had been prepared by the anti-Protestant theologian Meletios Syrigos under the auspices of Prince

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of Moldavia, was a disappointement 'sic''to Cyril I's followers. But they had enough power to replace him in early September 1644 with Parthenius II, the preferred successor of Cyril I himself and a proponent of the plan to distribute copies of the Bible's translation in the vernacular" (p. 185). It is also noted that "Parthenius I, Parthenius II, and Joannicius II had ties with the Catholic world, while Parthenius II was also in contact with Calvinist circles in Leiden" (p. 185, footnote 149).

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