Parthenius II (? – 16 May 1651) was

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 ...

for two periods (1644–1646, 1648–1651).

Kallistos Ware Kallistos Ware (born Timothy Richard Ware, 11 September 1934 – 24 August 2022) was an English bishop and theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church. From 1982, he held the titular bishopric of Diokleia in Phrygia ( gr, Διόκλεια Φρ� ...

relates that Parthenius, before becoming Patriarch, wrote to

Pope Urban VIII Pope Urban VIII ( la, Urbanus VIII; it, Urbano VIII; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death in July 1644. As po ...

in 1640: "To your Beatitude I render all due obedience and submission, acknowledging you to be the true successor of the leader of the Apostles, and the chief shepherd of the Catholic Church throughout the whole world. With all piety and obedience I bow before your holy feet and kiss them, asking your blessing, for with full power you guide and tend the whole of Christ's chosen flock. So I confess and so I believe; and I am zealous that my subjects also should be such as I am myself. Finding them eager, I guide them in the ways of piety; for there are not a few who think just as I do". He was a partisan of

Cyril Lucaris Cyril Lucaris or Loukaris ( el, Κύριλλος Λούκαρις, 13 November 1572 – 27 June 1638), born Constantine Lucaris, was a Greek prelate and theologian, and a native of Candia, Crete (then under the Republic of Venice). He later be ...

.Eleni Gara and Ovidiu Olar,
5. CONFESSION-BUILDING AND AUTHORITY: THE GREAT CHURCH AND THE OTTOMAN STATE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
, in ''Entangled Confessionalizations?'' (edited by Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu; Gorgias Press, 2022). "The conciliatory policy of Parthenios I, who in March 1643 corroborated the revised version of Peter Mohila’s ''Orthodox Confession'' that had been prepared by the anti-Protestant theologian Meletios Syrigos under the auspices of Prince Vasile Lupu of Moldavia, was a disappointement 'sic''to Loukaris’ followers. But they had enough power to replace him in early September 1644 with Parthenios II, the preferred successor of Loukaris himself and a proponent of the plan to distribute copies of the Bible’s translation in the vernacular." (p. 185) It is also noted that "Parthenios I, Parthenios II, and Ioannikios II had ties with the Catholic world, while Parthenios II was also in contact with Calvinist circles in Leiden". (p. 185, footnote 149)

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