July 25, 1261

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A well-known historian and statesman, who left us a "Chronicle" of the most important events of his time (translated into Russian and published at the St. Petersburg Dukh. Academy in 1863) and took an active part in all the most important affairs under the emperors Theodore Lascaris the Younger (1255-1259) and Michael Palaiologos (1259-1281) and, by the way, in the Union of Lions, which he accepted at the Council of Lyons in 1274 in the name of Emperor Michael as his plenipotentiary representative at this council. In addition to the chronicle, several other works of theological content have survived from it, and among them they read — λόγοι δυο περι τῆς εκπορεύσεως του αγίου Πνεύματος, of which the 1st extensive one was published by Fr. Andronik Dimitrakopoulos together with other hitherto unpublished theological works by various writers in the first volume of his collection under the title: Bibliotheca ecclesiastica continens Graecorum theologorum opera, Lipsiae 1866, based on the manuscript of the Moscow Synodal Library. The second word on the same subject, as well as other works of Acropolites, both theological and philosophical, remain in manuscripts to this day. Cm. about them Fabricii, Biblioth. Graeca t. VII p. 770 ed. Harles and Oudini Commentarius de scriptor. ecclesiasticis t. III p. 465–467.

Gregory of Cyprus afterwards honored his former teacher with a eulogy for the funeral, which unfortunately had not yet been published.

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A play on words in the original — οδ υκ ηνείχετο του φρονήματος (high opinion of oneself and low opinion of others), καὶ μᾶλλον ἐίπεἷν τοῦ καταφρονήματος (positive disregard for others, contempt).

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If we assume that George Acropolitan opened his school in the year 1262 after the capture of Constantinople, then Gregory must have been born around 1233.

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This refers to the ecclesiastical turmoil that followed the proclamation of the Union of Lions in the East.