1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ARSENIUS AUTORIANUS (i3th century), patriarch of Constantinople, lived about the middle of the i3th century. He received his education in Nicaea at a monastery of which he later became the abbot, though not in orders. Subsequently he gave himself up to a life of solitary asceticism in a Bithynian monastery, and is said, probably wrongly, to have remained some time in a monastery on Mount Athos. From this seclusion he was in A.D. 1255 called by Theodore II. Lascaris to the position of patriarch at Nicaea, and four y…
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