See also: Joseph, Holy Joseph

Joseph of Constantinople (known as holy Joseph of Constantinople ) was patriarch of Constantinople of 1261 to January 11th, 1276 then from December 26th, 1282 to March 23rd, 1283. He was married in his youth, but with dead his wife he was made monk and pointed out himself for his kindness towards the poor. Become very near to Michel VIII Paleologist of which he became the confessor, he was one of the craftsmen of the religious crisis which struck the empire when Michel VIII plugged the young person Jean IV Lascaris. He obliged in particular the Germain patriarch to leave his functions and was made elect patriarch (1261). At the beginning of its patriarchate it cancels the anathema which the patriarch Arsène Autoriannos had thrown on the Michel emperor, thereafter it was savagely opposed to the Union with Rome and it is what caused its loss, it abdicated on January 11th, 1276. Nevertheless after the death of its successor Jean Vekkos it was restored in its functions of patriarch but died three months later (March 23rd, 1283).

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