Constantine Acropolites
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Constantine Acropolites (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Ἀκροπολίτης, "Konstantinos Akropolitês"), son of George Acropolites, was also a minister of Michael VIII Palaiologos, until he was disgraced. Under Andronikos II, however, he was again in favor. Like his father, too, he wrote much on theology, especially on the more recondite doctrines, such as the procession of the Holy Ghost. In compiling lives of saints he was more usefully employed—that of St. John of Damascus is in the huge collection of Jean Bolland.
His daughter Theodora married the general Alexios Philanthropenos.
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- Rose, Hugh James [1853] (1857). A New General Biographical Dictionary, London: B. Fellowes et al.
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