Simeon II or Symeon II was the

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from the 1080s to 1099.

Patriarch

Simeon was appointed the

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in the 1080s.

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addressed a letter to him, urging him to acknowledge

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to achieve the union of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches. The

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, warned Simeon against the accepting the Pope's offer, reminding him to the Orthodox views about Eucharist, primacy and the

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. Simeon wrote a commentary about the use of

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in the

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in the Roman Catholic Church in defence of the Orthodox practise. After the

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forced him into exile, he settled in

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