Metochita, Georgius
Γεώργιος ὁ Μετοχίτης
(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.
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 Mysteriis 8. 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.
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.