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during the period 1826–1830.

Biography

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διδακτορική διατριβή, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΠΘ), Θεολογική Σχολή, Τμήμα Ποιμαντικής και Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας, 2006, p. 20 There he was first educated. He became a monk in the

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. About 1800 he became a priest of the Greek community of

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. In November 1815 he was elected Metropolitan bishop of

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and in August 1825 metropolitan bishop of Chalcedon. On 26 September in 1826, after Chrystanthus was deposed and exiled, Agathangelus was elected Patriarch of Constantinople. He was one of the most educated Patriarchs of his time. He spoke Greek,

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and

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. His reign was associated with certain actions that lowered his prestige and caused heated reactions. The first was his involvement in the

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in 1827 when some of the chieftains of

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asked for his intercession with Sultan

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so that they would be amnestied. Agathangelus, on the Sultan's order, sent a deputation to the Ioannis Kapodistrias, asking that the Greeks submit to the Sultan, an act which tainted his reputation as anti-ethnic. Along with his involvement in the election of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, which was attributed to bribery, economical and administrative instabilities led to his deposition on 5 July 1830. After that, he was exiled to

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and later to Edirne, where he died in 1832.

References

Sources

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Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο
* Encyclopedia Papyrus Larousse Britannica, 2007, vol. 1, p. 152 {{authority control 1832 deaths People from Edirne 19th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople Metropolitans of Belgrade Greek people of the Greek War of Independence Bishops of Chalcedon 1769 births People associated with Iviron Monastery