Meletius II ( el, Μελέτιος Β΄; died 5 January 1780) served as

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 ...

during the period 1768–1769. He was born in

Tenedos Tenedos (, ''Tenedhos'', ), or Bozcaada in Turkish, is an island of Turkey in the northeastern part of the Aegean Sea. Administratively, the island constitutes the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale Province. With an area of it is the third l ...

. From 1750 until 1768, he served as metropolitan bishop of Larissa and then was elected Ecumenical Patriarch. During the uprising of 1769, he was dismissed and was exiled to

Mytilene Mytilene (; el, Μυτιλήνη, Mytilíni ; tr, Midilli) is the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos, and its port. It is also the capital and administrative center of the North Aegean Region, and hosts the headquarters of the University o ...

. In 1775, with permission of the Sultan Mustafa III, he returned to Tenedos and in 1777 to

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, where he died destitute in 1780. He was probably buried on Tenedos. In the late 20th century, his fragmentary tombstone was discovered in the garden of North Bank, a mansion in

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, London, where it may have been taken as a souvenir in the 19th century. In 2013, the stone was returned to

, in the custody of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

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Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο
* Encyclopaedia Papyrus Larousse Britannica, 2007, vol. 35, p. 419 {{authority control People from Tenedos Bishops of Larissa 18th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople Tenedos 18th-century Greek people