Ecumenical Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople
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Patriarch Joseph II was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1416-1439. He was the son of Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria.
Together with Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaiologos, 23 Metropolitan bishops and countless scholars and theologians, he took part in the Council of Florence. While in Florence, he was quartered in the Palazzo Ferrantini.
Joseph was very old and ill and died within 2 months in 1439. His death caused much grief to all present at the Council, as he was a fervent supporter of union between the Churches. His grave in the Dominican convent church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence survives, with an elaborate fresco portrait in a semi-Byzantine style.
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