Isidore Glabas ( el, Ἰσίδωρος Γλαβᾶς) was the

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between 1380 and 1384, and again from 1386 until his death on 11 January 1396. Born John Glabas in 1341/42, he became a monk on 1 April 1375. On 25 May 1380 he was named metropolitan of Thessalonica, but left the city in 1382, and was deposed in September 1384. Although reinstated in March 1386, he continued to reside in

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rather than his see until some time between the summer of 1389 and October 1393, when he returned to Thessalonica. During his absence, the city was conquered by the

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in 1387, and he went to negotiations with them in

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. Glabas was a correspondent of Theodore Potamios and

Demetrios Kydones Demetrios Kydones, Latinized as Demetrius Cydones or Demetrius Cydonius ( el, Δημήτριος Κυδώνης; 1324, Thessalonica – 1398, Crete), was a Byzantine Greeks, Greek theologian, translator, author and influential statesman, who s ...

, and composed

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and studies on the calculation of Easter and the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Glabas, Isidore 1341 births 1396 deaths 14th-century Byzantine bishops

Isidore Isidore ( ; also spelled Isador, Isadore and Isidor) is an English and French masculine given name. The name is derived from the Greek name ''Isídōros'' (Ἰσίδωρος) and can literally be translated to "gift of Isis." The name has survived ...

Byzantine bishops of Thessalonica