Patriarch Athanasius III of Alexandria
Appearance
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 Pope Innocent III 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Steven Runciman. The Eastern Schism. (Oxford, 1955). p. 100.
- Sources
- "Athanasius III (1276–1316)". Official web site of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa. Retrieved 2011-02-07.