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GENNADIUS II . [as layman GEORGIOS SCHOLARIOS] (d. c. 1468), See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople from 1454 to 1456, philosopher and theologian, was one of the last representatives of See also:Byzantine learning. Extremely little is known of his See also:life, but he appears to have been See also:born at Constantinople about 1400 and to have entered the service of the See also:emperor See also:John VII. Paleologus as imperial See also:judge or counsellor. Georgios first appears conspicuously in See also:history as See also:present at the See also:great See also:council held in 1438 at See also:Ferrara and See also:Florence with the See also:object of bringing about a See also:union between the See also:Greek and Latin Churches. At the. same council was present the celebrated Platonist, Gemistus Pletho, the most powerful opponent of the then dominant Aristotelianism, and consequently the See also:special object of reprobation to Georgios. In See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church matters, as in See also:philosophy, the two were opposed,—Pletho maintaining strongly the principles of the Greek Church, and being unwilling to accept union through See also:compromise, while Georgios, more politic and cautious, pressed the See also:necessity for union and was instrumental in See also:drawing up a See also:form which from its vagueness and See also:ambiguity might be accepted by both parties.
He was at a disadvantage because, being a layman, he could not directly take See also:part in the discussions of the council. But on his re-turn to See also:Greece his views changed, and he violently and obstinately opposed the union he had previously urged. In 1448 he became a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk at Pantokrator and took the name Gennadius. In 1453, after the See also:capture of Constantinople by the See also:Turks, Mahommed IL, finding that the patriarchal See also:chair had been vacant for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, resolved to elect some one to the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, and the choice See also:fell on Gennadius. While holding the episcopal office Gennadius See also:drew up, apparently for the use of Mahommed, a lucid See also:confession or exposition of the See also:Christian faith, which was translated into See also:Turkish by Ahmed, judge of Beroea, and first printed by A. Brassicanus at See also:Vienna in 1530. After a couple of years Gennadius found the position of patriarch under a Turkish See also:sultan so irksome that he retired to the monastery of John the Baptist near Serrae in See also:Macedonia, where he died about 1468. About one See also:hundred of his alleged writings exist, the See also:majority in See also:manuscript and of doubtful authenticity.
The fullest See also:account of his writings is given in Gass, Gennadius and Pletho (See also:Berlin, 1844), the second part of which contains Pletho's Contra Gennadium. See also F. See also:Schultze, Gesch. der Phil. d. See also:Renaissance, i. (1874). A See also:list of the known writings of Gennadius is given in See also:Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, ed. Harles, vol. xi., and what has been printed is to be found in See also:Migne, See also:Patrol. Gr. vol. clx.
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