Meletius II of Constantinople

Meletius II of Constantinople (Greek: Μελέτιος; died 5 January 1780) served as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople during the period 1768–1769.

Meletius II of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Church	Church of Constantinople
Diocese	Constantinople
See	Ecumenical Patriarchate
Installed	5 November 1768
Term ended	11 April 1769
Predecessor	Samuel of Constantinople
Successor	Theodosius II of Constantinople
Personal details
Born	Tenedos, Ottoman Empire
Died	5 January 1780 Constantinople
Buried	Tenedos
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church

He was born in Tenedos. From 1750 until 1768, he served as metropolitan bishop of Larissa and then was elected Ecumenical Patriarch. During the uprising of 1769, he was dismissed and was exiled to Mytilene. In 1775, with permission of the Sultan Abdul Hamid I, he returned to Tenedos and in 1777 to Constantinople, where he died destitute in 1780.

He was probably buried on Tenedos. In the late 20th century, his fragmentary tombstone was discovered in the garden of North Bank, a mansion in Muswell Hill, London, where it may have been taken as a souvenir in the 19th century. In 2013, the stone was returned to Constantinople, in the custody of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.^[1][2]