COSTANTINO ACROPOLITA. — Greek writer who lived at the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th. Like his father Giorgio, he was for many years grand Logotheta (chancellor), at least from 1296 to 1321, and composed numerous Lives of Saints, widely read among the Byzantines, which earned him the title of “new Metaphrastes.” Under Andronico II, he also took part in the polemic against the Council of Lyons with two pamphlets on the procession of the Holy Spirit, concerning which Leone Allaeci provides some information in his work De perpetua consensione (Cologne 1648).
BIBL.: M. Jugie, Acropolita (Costantini), in DHG, I, cols. 276–77; Krumbacher, pp. 204 ff. Maurizio Gordillo