Maximus Margunios

Maximus Margunios (born, Crete—died 1602, Venice [Italy]) was a Greek Orthodox bishop and humanist exponent of Greek culture in Italy, whose attempt to reconcile the theologies of the Eastern and Western churches aroused suspicion of his orthodoxy in Byzantine churchmen. After his education at the University of Padua, a centre for Greek scholars, Margunios became a monk in 1579, possibly at the monastery of St. Catherine, near Candia (Iráklion), Crete, where he first studied Greek...