Anthimus VI

Anthimus VI (born c. 1790, Kutali Island, Aegean Sea—died 1878, Kandilli, near present Istanbul) was an Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople who attempted to maintain his ecclesiastical authority over the rebellious Bulgarian Orthodox Church, and, with others, wrote an Orthodox encyclical letter repudiating Roman Catholic overtures toward reunion. In about 1840 Anthimus, a monk of a monastery on Mt. Athos, in Greece, was chosen metropolitan of Ephesus, near modern Selçuk, Tur. He later became patriarch...