Jeremias ii

Portrait of Jeremias II, 1588, Collegium Maius in Cracow

Jeremias II (* 1536 in Ankhailo (today Pomorie in Bulgaria ), † September 1595 in Constantinople ) with the surname Tranos ("a person of penetrating understanding") was Patriarch of Constantinople : from May 5, 1572 to November 23, 1579, August 1580 to February 22, 1584 and from April 1587 to September 1595.

Life

He was born in Anchailo on the Black Sea to an influential family known for their piety. Presumably he studied at the Patriarchal Academy in Constantinople. He became a monk in the Ioannes Prodromos monastery in Sozopolis . Between 1564 and 1572 he was Bishop of Larisa (Thessaly).

Jeremias was first elected patriarch when he was 36 years old. He was the 173rd successor to the Apostle Andrew and the 19th ecumenical patriarch since the fall of Constantinople in 1453 . As a patriarch, he surrounded himself with scholars who knew the Greek and Latin way of thinking and was the first to set up a publishing house in Constantinople.

Jeremias was one of the most able patriarchs during the time of the Ottoman Empire , both as a theologian and as an administrator, who was a staunch opponent of simony .

During his time (1573–1581) the first ecumenical dialogue between Lutherans and the Orthodox Church took place . Jeremias II emphatically refused to adopt the Gregorian calendar in the countries of Orthodoxy.

During a trip to Moscow he elevated the metropolitan seat there to the Patriarchate of Moscow and the whole of Russia and on January 26, 1589 personally appointed the then metropolitan job as patriarch. She received the Greek gospel book Mosqu as a gift from Jeremias . GIM Sin. gr. 511 (11th century)

literature

• Heike Mierau :  Jeremias II. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 53-55.
• Christian Hannick - K.-P. Todt, Jérémie II Tranos . In. GC Conticello - V. Conticello: La théologie byzantine et sa tradition . Vol. 2. Tounhout 2002, 551-615.
• Vassiliki Tzoga: Un sigillion inédit du patriarche de Constantinople Jérémie II et d 'Alexandrie Sylvestre sur la réforme du calendrier . In: Byzantine magazine 107/1. De Gruyter Boston, Berlin, Munich 2014, pp. 221-252.

Remarks

1. ↑ Marcin Latka: Detail of portrait of Jeremias II Tranos, Patriarch of Constantinople. artinpl, accessed on August 3, 2019 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Jeremias II in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Methrophanes III.	Patriarch of Constantinople 1572–1579	Methrophanes III.
Methrophanes III.	Patriarch of Constantinople 1580–1584	Pachomios II.
Theoleptus II	Patriarch of Constantinople 1587–1595	Matthew II