Meletios

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Meletios is a male Greek personal name .

variants

  • Greek: Μελέτιος
  • Latin: Meletius
  • Polish: Melecjusz
  • Russian: Мелетий, Meleti
  • Spanish: Melecio

Name bearer

  • Meletios of Lycopolis (early 4th century), Bishop of Lycopolis
  • Meletius of Antioch († 381), from 360 to 381 patriarch of Antioch
  • Meletios I Pegas (1549–1601), Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria (1580–1601) and Acting Patriarch of Constantinople (1596–1598)
  • Meletios Smotrizki (around 1577–1633), Ruthenian scholar, theologian and writer in the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, see Meletius Smotriscius
  • Meletios II. (1871-1935), Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople (1923-1924) and Alexandria (1927-1935)

See also