Anthimus VI, (original name Joannides, 1782 – 7 December 1877) was the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of th ...
for three periods from 1845 to 1848, from 1853 to 1855 and from 1871 to 1873. He was born in Kutali Island in the
Sea of Marmara
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and died in
Kandilli.
Before becoming a Patriarch, Anthimus was a monk at the
Esphigmenou monastery
The Sacred Patriarchal and Stauropegic Monastery Esphigmenou ( el, Ιερά Πατριαρχική και Σταυροπηγιακή Μονή Εσφιγμένου ) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece, d ...
in
Mount Athos
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, and became
metropolitan bishop
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Originally, the term referred to the b ...
of
Serres
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Serres is one of the administrative and economic centers of Northe ...
(1829),
Prussa (1833) and
Ephesus
Ephesus (; grc-gre, Ἔφεσος, Éphesos; tr, Efes; may ultimately derive from hit, 𒀀𒉺𒊭, Apaša) was a city in ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey. It was built in t ...
(1837). In 1845 he expanded the
catholicon of the monastery, adding two
chapels
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, a
vestibule and a
porch
A porch (from Old French ''porche'', from Latin ''porticus'' "colonnade", from ''porta'' "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building. A porch is placed in front of the facade of a building it commands, and form ...
to it.
1790 births
1878 deaths
Bishops of Ephesus
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Greece
Metropolitans of Bursa
19th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople
People associated with Esphigmenou Monastery
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