Ecumenical Patriarch Benjamin I of Constantinople

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Benjamin I was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1936 till 1946. During his patriarchate in 1941 a great fire destroyed the Patriarchal Palace in Fanari. A new Palace was erected in 1989 by P. Aggelopoulos.

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Preceded by:
Photius II
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
19361946
Succeeded by:
Maximus V

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