Patriarch Metrophanes of Alexandria

Metrophanes
Μητροφάνης
Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa
Metrophanes Kritopoulos
ChurchEastern Orthodox Church
SeeAlexandria
Installed1636
Term ended1639
PredecessorGerasimus Ι
SuccessorNicephorus
Personal details
Born
Metrophanes Kritopoulos

c. 1589
Died30 May 1639
Wallachia, Ottoman Empire
OccupationTheology, Greek literature, and philosophy

Metrophanes Kritopoulos, sometimes Critopoulos, Critopoulus, Kritopulus (Greek: Μητροφάνης Κριτόπουλος, c. 1589 – 30 May 1639) was a Greek monk and theologian who served as Greek Patriarch of Alexandria between 1636 and 1639.

Biography

Metrophanes Kritopoulos was a Greek born in Veria, Macedonia in 1589. Originally a monk on Mount Athos, he was a close associate of Cyril Lucaris. He studied at the University of Oxford in England (1617–24, funded by James I) and in Germany. He travelled to Europe and mingled with the greatest scholars and theologians of his day. He made Orthodoxy known in the West and was particularly concerned with the problem of unifying the Orthodox Church with the churches of Western Europe. He taught Greek in Vienna (1627–30). After a period as bishop of Memphis in Egypt, he was elected patriarch of Alexandria on 1636, where he put together an important library.

He died in Wallachia in 1639.

Metrophanes Kritopoulos in 1627

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