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Neophytus VI of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1734 to 1740 and from 1743 to 1744

Field	Value
name	Neophytus VI of Constantinople
image	Patriarch_Neophytus_VI_of_Constantinople_(cropped).jpg
church	Church of Constantinople
archbishop_of	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
term	{{plainlist
predecessor	Seraphim I of Constantinople
successor	Paisius II of Constantinople
previous_post	Metropolitan of Caesarea in Cappadocia
birth_place	Patmos, Greece
death_date	February or March 1747
death_place	Patmos, Greece
religion	Eastern Orthodoxy

27 September 1734 – August 1740
May 1743 – March 1744

Neophytus VI of Constantinople (; died 1747) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two terms, from 1734 to 1740 and from 1743 to 1744.

Life

Neophytus was born in Patmos, and when the Metropolitan of Caesarea in Cappadocia was elected to the Patriarchate as Jeremias III of Constantinople, he was elected in his place as Metropolitan of Caesarea. As Metropolitan of Caesarea, his more important act was restoring in 1728 the monastery of Saint John the Baptist at Zincidere in Cappadocia.

Neophytus VI was appointed as Patriarch on 27 September 1734 supported by the Dragoman of the Porte, the Phanariot Alexander Gikas. His subjection to the Dragoman caused the Grand vizier to order his deposition six years later, in August 1740. Neophytus VI reigned again for a short term, from May 1743 to March 1744, and during this term, he was ordered by the Grand vizier not to have any contact with Alexander Gikas.

His Patriarchal reign was not marked by any particular event, and Neophytus VI mainly dealt with monastic issues. He had letters with Nicolaus Zinzendorf, the reformer of the Moravian Church, but without any result. After his second and final deposition, he was exiled in Patmos where he died in February or March 1747.

References

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Moustakas Konstantinos. "Neophytos VI of Constantinople". Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor.
"Neophytos VI". Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Fortescue, Adrian. (1908). "The Orthodox Eastern Church". [[Catholic Truth Society]].
Papadopoulos, Theodōros. (1952). "Studies and documents relating to the history of the Greek Church and people under Turkish domination".

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