Athanasius I of Constantinople
{{Short description|Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1289 to 1293 and from 1303 to 1309}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific_prefix = Saint
| name = Athanasius I of Constantinople
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| church = Church of Constantinople
| archbishop_of = Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
| term = 14 October 1289 –
16 October 1293
23 June 1303 –
September 1309
| predecessor = Gregory II of Constantinople,
John XII of Constantinople
| successor = John XII of Constantinople,
Nephon I of Constantinople
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| birth_date = {{circa|1230}}
| birth_place = Adrianople
(modern-day Edirne, Turkey)
| death_date = 28 October 1310
| death_place = Constantinople
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| religion = Eastern Orthodoxy
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Athanasius I of Constantinople ({{langx|el|Ἀθανάσιος}}; {{circa|1230}} – 28 October 1310) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two terms, from 1289 to 1293 and from 1303 to 1309. He was born in Adrianople and died in Constantinople. Chosen by the emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos as patriarch, he opposed the reunion of the Greek and Roman Churches and introduced an ecclesiastic reform that evoked opposition within the clergy. He resigned in 1293 and was restored in 1303 with popular support. The pro-Union clerical faction forced him into retirement in September 1309.
He is commemorated as a saint in the Orthodox Church with his feast day observed annually on 28 October.Great Synaxaristes: {{in lang|el}} [http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1015/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Ἀθανάσιος ὁ Α' Πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως], 28 Οκτωβρίου, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
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Bibliography
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- Boojamra, John L.; "Athanasios of Constantinople - A Study of Byzantine Reactions to Latin Religious Infiltration", Church History, 48 (1979), 27–48.
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- {{Cite book |last=Pavlikianov |first=Cyril |title=The Medieval Aristocracy on Mount Athos - Philological and Documentary Evidence for the Activity of Byzantine, Georgian and Slav Aristocrats and Eminent Churchmen in the Monasteries of Mount Athos from the 10th to the 15th Century |date=2001 |location=Sofia |publisher=Center for Slavo-Byzantine Studies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twYuAAAAYAAJ}}
- Alice-Mary Talbot, "The Patriarch Athanasius (1289–1293; 1303–1309) and the Church", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 27 (1973), 11–28.
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