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(Redirected from Patriarch Antony IV of Constantinople) Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1389 to 1390 and 1390 to 1397

Antony IV of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
ChurchChurch of Constantinople
In officeJanuary 1389 – July 1390
September 1390 – May 1397
PredecessorNilus of Constantinople,
Macarius of Constantinople
SuccessorMacarius of Constantinople,
Callistus II of Constantinople
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DiedMay 1397

Antony IV of Constantinople (Greek: Ἀντώνιος; died May 1397) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two terms, from January 1389 to July 1390, and again from September 1390 until his death.

He was originally a hieromonk, possibly from the Dionysiou monastery in Mount Athos. He was deposed during the usurpation of John VII Palaiologos in April 1390, and replaced by Macarius of Constantinople, who had already served in the office in 1377–1379. After the restoration of John V Palaiologos and Manuel II Palaiologos a few months later, he was restored to his post.

He is notable for his correspondence with Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania, urging him to join in a crusade against the Turks along with the Hungarians, and with Vasily I of Moscow, to whom he defended not only the universal spiritual authority of the Constantinopolitan patriarchate, but also the universal authority of the Byzantine emperors, regardless of the actual diminished state of the Byzantine Empire.

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Preceded byNilus Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
1389 – 1390
Succeeded byMacarius
Preceded byMacarius Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
1390 – 1397
Succeeded byCallistus II
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