Alexios I. Studites

Alexios I. Studites (Greek Αλέξιος ὁ Στουδίτης ; † February 20, 1043 ) was Patriarch of Constantinople (1025-1043).

Life

Alexios was the hegumen (abbot) of the studio monastery . On December 15, 1025 he was ordained and enthroned as Patriarch of Constantinople. He was chosen by Emperor Basil II , who died that day.

Alexios had to assert himself in several changes of power in Constantinople. He reformed parts of Byzantine canon law. In 1034 Alexios founded the Monastery of Dormition (Koimesis) of the Mother of God on the Bosporos, whose rules ( Typikon ) were adopted by the Pechersk Lavra in Kiev . The text is only preserved in the Slavic version.

Alexios died on February 20, 1043.

swell

• Johannes Skylitzes , Chronicle
• David M. Petras: The Typicon of the Patriarch Alexis the Studite: Novgorod-St. Sophia 1136 . Pontificium Institutum Orientale. Facultas Scientiarum Ecclesiasticarum Orientalium. Excerpta ex Dissertatione ad Doctoratum. Cleveland: Star Printing Co. 1991. II, 156 pp.
• Алексей М. Пентковский [Aleksej M. Pentkovskij]: Типикон патриарха Алексия Студита в Византии и на Руси . Москва: Издательство Московской Патриархии 2001. 432 pp. ISBN 5-88017-064-0 .

literature

• F. Lauritzen: Against the Enemies of Tradition, Alexios Studites and the Synodikon of Orthodoxy. In: A. Rigo, P. Ermilov: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Byzantium. Rome 2010, 41-48.
• Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 1: Aaron - Azarethes . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2007, ISBN 978-2-503-52303-3 , pp. 163-164.
• Frederick Lauritzen: The synods of Alexios Studites (1025-1043) . In: Christian host [u. a.]: The Patriarchate of Constantinople in Context and Comparison (Publications on Byzanzforschung 41). VÖAW, Vienna 2017, 17–24.

predecessor	Office	successor
Eustathios I.	Patriarch of Constantinople 1025-1043	Michael I. Kerularios