Eustratius Garidas
patriarch of Constantinople
b. 11th century
115th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Eustratius Garidas was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople between 8 May 1081 and July 1084. A monk, he was elevated to the patriarchal throne through the influence of the mother of the emperor Alexios I Komnenos, Anna Dalassene, to whom he had become an intimate advisor. He was an eunuch.
Related people
- Cosmas I of Constantinople succeeded · inferred
- Nicholas III of Constantinople preceded · inferred
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani