Anthimus VII Tsatsos

Anthimus VII Tsatsos (born c. 1835, possibly Ioánnina, Greece—died December 1913, Halki, Tur.) was an Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople (1895–96), theologian, orator, and a leading critic of the Roman Catholic Church. Like Anthimus VI, his predecessor of a half-century earlier, Anthimus VII is known for his encyclical letter to the Orthodox world refuting a papal encyclical, Praeclara Gratulationis (“Splendid Rejoicing”) of Pope Leo XIII (June 20, 1894), which proposed grounds for the reunion of...