Arsenius Autoreianos
Saint Arsenius of Constantinople | |
|---|---|
| Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople | |
| Church | Church of Constantinople |
| In office | November 1254 – February/March 1260 March/June 1261 – May/June 1264 |
| Predecessor | Manuel II of Constantinople Nicephorus II of Constantinople |
| Successor | Nicephorus II of Constantinople Germanus III of Constantinople |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Arsenius Autoreianus c. 1200 |
| Died | 30 September 1273 |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodoxy |
Arsenius of Constantinople (Latinised as Arsenius Autoreianus; Greek: Ἀρσένιος Αὐτωρειανός; c. 1200 – 30 September 1273), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, lived about the middle of the 13th century.
Born in Constantinople c. 1200 and related to previous Patriarch Michael IV of Constantinople, Arsenius received his education in Nicaea at a monastery of which he later became the abbot, though not in orders. Subsequently, he gave himself up to a life of solitary asceticism in a Bithynian monastery and is said to have remained some time in a monastery on Mount Athos.