Gennadius Scholarius

Holy Hierarch Gennadius Scholarius is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 25 August (new style), among the patriarchs of Constantinople: John the Cappadocian, Epiphanius, Menas and Gennadius.

The synaxarion shows for two of them: John II was patriarch two years and ten months after Timothy and fell asleep in peace in 520; Epiphanius shepherded for fifteen years and three months and fell asleep in peace in 535. The calendar page links the name Gennadius to Gennadius Scholarius, the patriarch after the fall of Constantinople, but the identification is not certain: the other patriarchs of the list lived in the sixth century, and a Gennadius of a nearby time seems more likely than Scholarius. The sources consulted say no more.