COSTANTINE ACROPOLITA. — A Greek writer who lived at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century. Like his father GEORGE, he served for many years as Great Logothete (chancellor), at least from 1296 to 1321, and composed numerous Lives of Saints, which were widely read among the Byzantines and earned him the title of “a new Metaphrastes.” He also took part, under ANDRONICUS II, in the controversy against the Council of Lyons with two short treatises on the procession of the Holy Spirit, on which LEO ALLACIUS provides some information in his work *De perpetua consensione* (Cologne 1648).
BIBL.: M. Jugic, Acropolite (Constantin), in DHG, I, cols. 376-77; Krumbacher, p. 204 sqq.