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Antony III of Constantinople

Patriarch of Constantinople

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ1273151 ↗
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Anthony III Stoudites (Greek: Ἀντώνιος Στουδίτης; died in 983) was a Greek monk member of the Monastery of Stoudios (founded 462), and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 973 to 978. He died in Constantinople in 983.

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“Antony III of Constantinople” enters the record as patriarch of Constantinople. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Antony, Constantinople and Patriarch can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 37-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Antony, Constantinople and Patriarch.
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“Antony III of Constantinople” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Antony, Constantinople and Patriarch provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1273151. VIAF identifies the subject as 554159474191127661856. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antony III of Constantinople” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.