Photios II ( el, Φώτιος Βʹ), (born Dimitrios Maniatis; 1874 – 29 December 1935) 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 th ...
from 7 October 1929 until 26 December 1935.
Biography
He was born in 1874 and baptized as Dimitrios Maniatis. After finishing elementary education, he attended the
Zariphios School
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in
Philippopolis. He studied theology at the
University of Athens and Philosophy at the
University of Munich. He spoke Greek,
Turkish
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,
French
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,
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and
Bulgarian
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.
In 1902, he was named deacon. He remained in the Metropolis of Philippopolis, where he reached the rank of ''
protosynkellos''. Then was named Patriarchal
Exarch
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In the late Roman Empire and ea ...
of Philippopolis for the period 1906–1914.
In 1915, he was elected assistant bishop of Eirinoupolis.
On 7 October 1929, he was elected
Ecumenical Patriarch
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 th ...
and assigned to his post on the same day. During his Patriarchy, the relations between Greece and Turkey improved thanks to the political actions of
Eleftherios Venizelos
Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos ( el, Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος, translit=Elefthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, ; – 18 March 1936) was a Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movem ...
and
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. The patriarch Photios II died on 29 December 1935.
External links
Photios II biography at the Ecumenical Patriarchate web site
20th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople
1874 births
1935 deaths
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
People from Princes' Islands
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