(Γεώργιος ὁ Μετοχίτης), 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.
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