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Patriarch Athanasius II of Constantinople


Athanasius II (died 29 May 1453) was the last Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople before the Fall of Constantinople. He supposedly served from 1450 to 1453. The only document about his existence is "Acts of the council in Hagia Sophia", that is considered to be a fake because of anachronisms in the text .

Athanasius, if he existed, was born in Crete early in the fifteenth century. He was elected patriarch of Constantinople in 1450, succeeding the deposed Gregory III. After the Fall of Constantinople, he escaped and retired to Mount Athos where he settled into a monastic house on the site of the old Monastery of Xistrou that he dedicated to St. Anthony the Great.

At a later date he left Athos for a monastery in Ukraine where he died at an unknown date.

His cell at Mount Athos eventually became the base on which the Skete of St. Andrew, a dependency of the Vatopedi Monastery, was founded.



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