Anchialus, Michael
Ἀγχίαλος
(Ἀγχίαλος), patriarch of Constantinople from 1167 to 1185 A. D., was a warm opponent of the union of the Greek and Roman churches, and an eminent Aristotelian philosopher.
Works
His extant works are.
1. Five synodal decrees.
Editions
Published in Greek and Latin in the Jus Gr. Rom. (iii. p. 227).
2. A dialogue with the emperor Manuel Comnenus concerning the claims of the Roman pontiff.
Editions
Of the latter work only some extracts have been published, by Leo Allatius.
Further Information
De Eccles. Occident. atque Orient. perpet. Consens.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.