GEREMIA II TRANOS, patriarch of COSTANTINOPOLI. - He was patriarch in the following years: 1572–79, 1580–84, 1589–95. On the occasion of his journey to Russia, he gave his consent to the establishment of the patriarchate of Moscow. The Lutheran theologians of Tübingen sought a union between Wittemberga and Byzantium, but G. decisively rejected the foundations of the Lutheran confession, as appears from his correspondence with those theologians between 1576 and 1581. He corresponded several times with Pope Gregorio XIII concerning the reform of the calendar and a double papal embassy sent to him; however, he did not fulfil his promises concerning this matter. His praise for the establishment of the Pontifical Greek College in Rome, and his condemnation of Protestantism, likewise expressed in a letter to the Pope, are valuable.
Jeremias II Tranos, Patriarch of Constantinople
BIBL.: L. Petit, Jérémie II Tranos, in DThC, VIII, cols. 886–94; G. Hofmann, Griechische Patriarchen und römische Päpste: Patriarch Jeremias II, in Orientalia Christiana, 25, (1932), pp. 225–48. Giorgio Hofmann
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“GEREMIA II TRANOS, PATRIARCA DI COSTANTINOPOLI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 89. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/geremia-ii-tranos-patriarca-di-costantinopoli.