Patriarch Metrophanes III of Constantinople


Metrophanes III of Byzantium was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople two times, from 1565 to 1572 and from 1579 to 1580.

Metrophanes was born in 1520 to a Bulgarian merchant father in the village of Agia Paraskevi , from where he took the sobriquet Byzantios . His original name is variously given as Manuel or George.

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