MANUEL OF CORINTH. — Byzantine orator and theologian, b. ca. 1460, d. ca. 1550. He served the patriarchs of Constantinople for almost 70 years and composed numerous theological, historical, hagiographical, and poetic works, the complete catalogue of which is found in A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus.
As an anti-Latin polemicist, he wrote an unpublished treatise on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, another on Purgatory; he also composed a reply to the conclusions of Fr. Francesco Predicatore, which is found in PG 140, 469 and is published in full by M. Gedeon in "Εκκλησιαστικὴ ἀλήθεια," 9 (1889), pp. 237-40; finally, a dissertation on Mark of Ephesus and the Council of Florence, edited by L. Petit in PO 18, 491-522.
BIBL.: Ph. Mayer, Die theologische Literatur der griechischen Kirche im XVI. Jahrhundert, Leipzig 1899, pp. 25-37; A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, "Εκκλησιαστικὴ ἀλήθεια," 9 (1889), pp. 25-37; A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Manuel de Corinthe, in DTHC, X, cols. 1923-24. Maurizio Gordillo