Patriarch Benjamin I of Constantinople

Benjamin I. ( Christodoulou ) (* January 18, 1871, † February 17, 1946 ) was from 1936 to 1946 Patriarch of Constantinople Opel and honorary head of the Orthodox Christianity.

As Metropolitan of Hereklia ( Eregli ), he was elected by the Holy Synod as the successor of the late Patriarch Photios II in January 1936. His inferior rival candidate Maximos Vaportzis, the Greek government favored should follow him in 1946 as a patriarch ( Maximos V. ). Benjamin I. received the first Patriarch of Constantinople Opel since the 16th century an official papal representative in the person of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli ( later to become the Pope John XXIII. ), Who was active during the Second World War as a Vatican diplomat in Turkey. In his papacy, among others fell the award of the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Albania. The Orthodox Church in Poland withdrew from the occupied after the Hitler -Stalin Pact of the Soviet Union the country under pressure from the power of jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

In 1941, a devastating fire the seat of the Patriarch at the Phanar on the Golden Horn in Istanbul, which was rebuilt only under Patriarch Demetrius I. ( 1972-91 ).

  • Patriarch
  • Orthodox Theologian ( 20th century)
  • Orthodox Bishop ( 20th Century)
  • Born in 1871
  • Died in 1946
  • Man
  • Greek (Ottoman Empire)
Patriarch Photios II of Constantinople Patriarch Maximus V of Constantinople Patriarch Demetrios I of Constantinople
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