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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Right-⁠Believing

Manuel

Emperor of Constantinople

An emperor of Constantinople, honored among the saints in the calendar of the Church of Greece.

Feast
July 21old style August 3
Era
unknown
Place
Constantinople
Order
Right-Believing Rulers

Life

The pious Emperor Manuel is listed on 21 July in the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style) as emperor of Constantinople. Through the angelic (monastic) schema, that is, by monastic tonsure, he received the name Matthew in 1425.

The synaxarion notes that his memory is unknown to the synaxarists. Someone unknown composed a service for him, together with two canons and without any commentary, published by Spyridon Lambros in the journal Neos Hellenomnemon, volume 14 (1917), pages 318 to 341. No other details of his life after the tonsure are known, nor any synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day July 21