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Manuel I Sarantenos or Karantenos or Charitopoulos (Greek: Μανουὴλ Σαραντηνός/Καραντηνός or Χαριτόπουλος; died May or June 1222) was the Patriarch of Constantinople from May 1217 to May/June 1222.
He seems to have been called "the Philosopher", George Akropolites says he was "a philosopher, it seems, in deed, and so named by the people". Manuel I was Patriarch-in-exile as at the time his titular seat was occupied by the Latin Patriarchate of Constantinople, and he lived in Nicaea. Before the sack of 1204, Manuel was a deacon and hypatos ton philosophon in Constantinople. This is likely the source of his epithet "the Philosopher".[1]
Under Manuel I, Saint Sava had become an archbishop and an autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church was formed in the territory of the Serbian Kingdom of Stefan the First-Crowned.
Manuel I is noted for his role in a diplomatic interplay between the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris and Robert I, Latin Emperor, in 1222. Robert I had approached Theodore I for a peace treaty and the latter offered his daughter Eudokia in marriage to cement the deal. But Theodore I had married Maria of Courtenay, Robert I's sister, in 1217. Manuel I is thus reported by George Akropolites to have blocked the betrothal, twice negotiated, on religious-legal grounds: Robert, Theodore's brother-in-law, could not also become his son-in-law as this was an "illegal union" and constituted incest as it was within the third degree of kinship.[2]
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