Patriarch Athanasius III of Alexandria

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Athanasius III served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 1276 and 1316.

Relations with the Church of Rome[edit]

Athanasius, then ill with gout, attended the Council of Blachernae in 1285 which repudiated the attempted union at Lyons.[1] Since the Bishop of Rome appointed a titular Latin Patriarch of Alexandria in 1310, it is likely that ecclesiastical communion with Rome had been broken by Athanasius III episcopate.[2]

References[edit]

Notes
  1. ^ Papadakis, Aristeides (1983). Crisis in Byzantium : the Filioque controversy in the patriarchate of Gregory II of Cyprus (1283-1289). Internet Archive. New York : Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-1088-6.
  2. ^ Steven Runciman. The Eastern Schism. (Oxford, 1955). p. 100.
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Preceded by Greek Patriarch of Alexandria
1276–1316
Succeeded by