Installed 1768 Died Istanbul, Turkey Diocese Constantinople | Occupation Ecumenical Patriarch Predecessor Samuel of Constantinople Term ended 1769 | |
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Church Church of Constantinople See Ecumenical Patriarchate Denomination Eastern Orthodox Church Successor Theodosius II of Constantinople | ||
Meletius II (Greek: Μελέτιος Β΄) served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople during the period 1768-1769.
He was born in Tenedos. From 1750 until 1768 he served as metropolitan bishop of Larissa and then was elected Ecumenical Patriarch. During the uprising of 1769 he was dismissed and was exiled to Mytilene. In 1775, with permission of the Sultan Mustafa III he returned to Tenedos and in 1777 to Istanbul, where he died destitute.
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