Sy'meon36. Of THESSALONICA. Little is known of the personal history of
Symeon, archbishop of Thessalonica, except that he lived in the first half of the fifteenth
century, and held his see for between five and six years, dying Sept. A. D.
1429, about six months before Thessalonica was taken by the Turks under Amurath.
Joannes Anagnostes, in his
De Thessalonicensi Excidio Narratio
(100.3), has noticed the death of Symeon, who was generally lamented ; and relates a curious
dream, by which his decease and the subsequent ruin of the city were supposed to be
portended.
Works
Theological Works
Symeon was the author of several theological works much esteemed in the Greek Church.
Editions
They were published under the care of Dositheus, patriarch of Jerusalem, folio,
Jassy, 1683.A Romaic version of the whole was published, 4to. Leipsic, 1791. Some of the
works have been also published separately.
Further Information
Allatius,
De Symeon. Scriptis, pp. 185-194; Fabric.
Biblioth. Graec. vol. xi. p. 328, &c.; Cave,
Hist. Litt. Appendix by Wharton and Gery, ad annos 1410, 1418, vol. ii. pp. 113,
114; Le Quien,
Oriens Christianus, vol. ii. col. 58 ; Oudin,
Commentarius de Scriptorib. Eccles. vol. iii. col. 2242,
&c.