Patriarch Callinicus III of Constantinople
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Callinicus III was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for one day in 1726. He is sometimes not counted amongst the patriarchs, and Callinicus IV
, who was Patriarch for a short time in 1757, is then numbered as the third of that name.
and before he was elected as Patriarch of Constantinople he was Metropolitan of Heraclea.
When Jeremy III was deposed on 19 November 1726, Callinicus was elected as Patriarch on the evening of the same day, but he died in the night at his home before the enthronement, possibly from a heart attack due to the happiness at his election.
The appointment fee that he had to pay to the Ottoman Sultan to allow his election was the maximum ever reached: no less than 36,400 Kuruş
, about 5,600 gold pound
s. The high amounts of these appointment fees, that the Greek Church could barely afford, were due both to the greed of the Ottoman rules and to the rivalries and quarrels into the Greek community which led to rapid changes and re-instalments of Patriarchs. After the scandal due to a such large amount wasted for a single day reign, the situation slowly improved with longer reigns and lower fees.
Patriarch Callinicus IV of Constantinople
Callinicus IV , born Constantine Mavrikios , was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for a few months in 1757 and a writer and scholar....
, who was Patriarch for a short time in 1757, is then numbered as the third of that name.
Life
Callinicus was a native of NaxosNaxos (island)
Naxos is a Greek island, the largest island in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean. It was the centre of archaic Cycladic culture....
and before he was elected as Patriarch of Constantinople he was Metropolitan of Heraclea.
When Jeremy III was deposed on 19 November 1726, Callinicus was elected as Patriarch on the evening of the same day, but he died in the night at his home before the enthronement, possibly from a heart attack due to the happiness at his election.
The appointment fee that he had to pay to the Ottoman Sultan to allow his election was the maximum ever reached: no less than 36,400 Kuruş
Kurus
Kuruş is a Turkish currency subunit. Since 2005, one new Turkish lira is equal to 100 kuruş. The kuruş was also the standard unit of currency in the Ottoman Empire until 1844, and from that date until the late 1970s was a subdivision of the former lira. It was subdivided into 40 para , each of...
, about 5,600 gold pound
Pound (mass)
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in the Imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement...
s. The high amounts of these appointment fees, that the Greek Church could barely afford, were due both to the greed of the Ottoman rules and to the rivalries and quarrels into the Greek community which led to rapid changes and re-instalments of Patriarchs. After the scandal due to a such large amount wasted for a single day reign, the situation slowly improved with longer reigns and lower fees.