ANTIMO VI, PATRIARCA DI COSTANTINOPOLI

ANTIMUS VI, Patriarch of CONSTANTINOPLE. —
He held the patriarchate on three separate occasions in the years
1845–48, 1853–55, and 1871–73, after having been a monk
on Mount Athos and Metropolitan of Serres, Bursa, and Ephesus;
he died in 1878. In 1848, in response to the encyclical of
Pius IX from the supreme See of Peter (6 Jan. 1848),
which invited the separated Easterners to union, A. published together with the Patriarchs Hierotheus of Alexandria,
Methodius of Antioch, and Cyril of Jerusalem the
so-called Patriarchal Encyclical, although the true
author of the letter was Constantius of Sinai, formerly
Patriarch of Constantinople (1830–34). In the Patriarchal
Encyclical the Papacy and the ambition of the Church of Rome are presented as a collection of doctrinal errors and reprehensible liturgical and canonical usages.