Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople

Joseph II (* 1360, † 1439) was from 1416 to 1439 Patriarch of Constantinople Opel, took 1438/39 at the Council of Ferrara - Florence in part, on the unity church should be restored. He was, as the then Byzantine emperor John VIII and the Russian Metropolitan Isidore of Kiev, a Union supporter and threw himself shortly before his death the Roman primacy claim. The compiled at the Council decree of union was signed by 31 clergy and the Byzantine emperor, but never rezipiert of pages of Orthodoxy due to differences in matters of faith, reaching no validity. 21 of the signatories recanted their signature to 1445th

The mortal remains of Joseph II are now buried in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence.

  • Patriarch
  • Byzantine
  • Born in 1360
  • Died in 1439
  • Man
John VIII Palaiologos Basilica of Santa Maria Novella Patriarch Metrophanes II of Constantinople Integrated Authority File
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