Constantine Leichoudes

Konstantinos Leichoudes (Greek Κωνσταντῖνος Λειχούδης, * the end of the 10th century in Constantinople Opel; † 9 or August 10, 1063 ibid ), was from 1059 to 1063 as Constantine III. Patriarch of Constantinople Opel. He was a disciple of John Mauropous, later minister to the Emperor Michael V., Protovestiarius. Isaac Komnenos appointed the layman Constantine 1059 as Patriarch of Constantinople Opel after Patriarch Michael I Kerularius had died in exile in Prokonnesus. He was a close friend of the historian Michael Psellos, but this was in the monastery of Narsou instruct on the western edge of Constantinople Opel, when he was accused of having neglected his oath as a monk.

Descendants of Leichoudes were the Russian philosopher Joan Niki Lichud and Sophronius Lichud.