(), magnus diaconus in
Constantinople, lived in the thirteenth century.
He was an intimate friend and staunch adherent of the emperor Andronicus the Elder, and one
of those few Greek divines who advocated the re-union of the Greek and Latin churches. For
both these reasons he was deposed and exiled, about 1283, by the emperor Andronicus the
Younger. He died in exile, but the year of his death is not known. Some say that he was the
father of the following Theodore Metochita, with whom several modern writers have confounded
him.
Works
He wrote different works of no small importance for the history of the time: his style is
abominable, but full of expressive strength and barbarous vigour.
1. Ἀντίρρησις, &c., or Refutatio trium Capitum Maxini Planudis; and 2. Ἀντίρρησις, &c., or, Responsio ad ea quae Manuel
Nepos Cretensis publicavit
Editions
Both published together, Greek and Latin, by Leo Allatius, in the second volume of
Graecia Orthodox.
3. Fragmentum ex Oratione de Unione Ecclesiarum
Editions
Published by the same in his diatribe Contra
Hottinger.
4. Fragm. ex Oratione de Dissidio Ecclesiar.
Editions
Published by the same in his diatribe Contra
Hottinger.
5. Tractatus de Processione Spiritus Sancti Patrumque húc
in re Sententiis
divided into five parts or books.
Hottinger gives some information on the whole work in his
De Consensu
utriusque Ecclesiae, p. 771.
Editions
A fragment of the fourth was published by Combéfis in the second volume of
Nova Biblioth. Patr. and a fragment of the
fifth by Leo Allatius in De Purgatorio and Contra Hottinger.,
Other Minor Productions
Most of these were known to Leo Allatius. 6. Oratio Antirrhetica contra Georgium Cyprium
Patriarcham.7. Oratio de Sacris Mysteriis8. Explicatio Regularum S. Nicephori&c.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 412, not.; Cave, Hist.
Lit. ad ann. 1276, p. 645, ed. Geneva.