Patriarch Metrophanes of Alexandria

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Mêtrophanês Kritopoulos (somtimes Critopoulos, Critopoulus, Kritopulus) (Greek: Μητροφάνης Κριτόπουλος/Mitrofanis Kritopoulos) served as Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria between 1636 and 1639.

He was born in Veria on 1589. Originally a monk on Mount Athos, he was a close associate of Cyril Lucaris. He studied in England and Germany. He traveled to Europe and mingled with the greatest scholars and theologians of his day. He made Orthodoxy known in the West and was particularly concerned with the problem of unifying the Orthodox Church with the churches of Western Europe. He taught Greek in Vienna (1627 - 1630). He was elected patriarch of Alexandria on 1636, where he put together an important library. He died in Wallachia on 1639.

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• List of Great Macedonians (15th-19th century)

Preceded by Gerasimus I

Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria 1639–1645

Succeeded by Nicephorus