January 1147-1151 A.D. Nicholas IV
Muzalon—Constantinople’s 112th;
Nicholas IV of Constantinople
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Nicholas IV Mouzalon (Greek: Νικόλαος Μουζάλων) was the Patriarch of Constantinople from December 1147 to March/April 1151.
Nicholas was born in ca. 1070,
and probably began his career teaching the gospels. Emperor Alexios I
Komnenos (r. 1081–1118) appointed him as archbishop of
Cyprus, but Nicholas abdicated the
see in ca. 1110. He spent the next 37 years in the Monastery of Saints Cosmas
and Damian in the Kosmidion suburb of Constantinople (modern Eyüp).
He was elected to the
patriarchal throne in 1147, replacing Cosmas II, who was accused of Bogomilism. His election however caused considerable
controversy: its canonical validity was called in question, since he had voluntarily
resigned from his previous see. Eventually, Nicholas was forced to resign as
patriarch, and died in 1152.
He wrote a number of
theological works, amongst them a treatise refuting the Filioque addressed to Alexios I, and a vivid poetic defence
of his first abdication.
Sources
- Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, pp. 1467–1468, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6
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Preceded by
Cosmas II |
Patriarch of Constantinople
1147–1151 |
Succeeded by
Theodotus II |
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