PARTENIUS I, patriarch of CONSTANTINOPLE. - He held this office from 1639 to 1644, when, forced to vacate it in favor of his successor Partenius II (1645-51), he retired first to Cyprus, then to Chios, where he died, it seems, in 1646.
During his patriarchate he sought to uproot from the Church of Constantinople the Calvinism introduced there under Patriarch Cyril Lucaris, whose doctrines were again condemned. P. also ordered Meletius Sirigos to revise and translate into Greek the Confession of Peter Mogila, approved at the Synod of Iași in 1642.
BIBL.: A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Documente privitoare la istoria Romadilor, XIII, Bucharest 1909, pp. 518 ff. Maurizio Gordillo