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Bessarion Cardinal

Author(s) : Makripoulias Christos (2/22/2007)
Translation : Koutras Nikolaos

For citation: Makripoulias Christos, "Bessarion Cardinal",
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Βησσαρίων Καρδινάλιος (3/7/2007 v.1) Bessarion Cardinal (3/7/2007 v.1) 

Chronological Table
 

c. 1400: Bessarion is born in Trebizond of the Pontos

c. 1415: He moves to Constantinople for advanced studies

1420s: He studies under George Chrysokkokes and John Chortasmenos

1424: He is tonsured a monk and receives the monastic name Bessarion

1426: He becomes a deacon

c. 1427: Bessarion participates in a diplomatic mission to Trebizond

1431: He becomes a monk and follows his patron, Dositheos, to the Peloponnese

1431-1435: Bessarion studies in Mystra, under the philosopher George Gemistos-Pletho

1436: Bessarion is recalled to Constantinople. He is appointed abbot and teacher in the monastery of St. Basil. He participates in an another diplomatic mission to Trebizond

1437: Bessarion is made metropolitan of Nicaea. Departure for Italy as a member of a Byzantine delegation

1437-1439: Participation in the Council of Ferrara-Florence

1439: In July Bessarion signs the Act of Union. In October he sails for Constantinople. In December 18th he is elected a Cardinal of the Papal Church

late 1440: He leaves Byzantium forever and settles in Italy

1442-1444: Bessarion’s first attempts to incite a Crusade against the Ottomans. He corresponds with Constantine Palaiologos

1446: Following Bessarion’s initiative, reforms are carried out in the Greek Catholic monasteries of Italy

1449: He is made bishop of Tusculum. Diplomatic mission in Northern Italy

1450-1455: Bessarion is a papal legate in Bologna

1455: Bessarion is a candidate for the papal throne

1459: He actively participates in the congress of Mantua

fall 1459 - January 1462: Diplomatic mission in Central Europe

1462: Bessarion sets up an «endowment» for the unionist priests of Crete

1463: He is elected Catholic Patriarch of Constantinople

July 1463 – summer 1464: Diplomatic mission to Venice

1465: He undertakes the upbringing of Thomas Palaiologos’ children

1468: Bessarion bequeaths his library to the Venetian state. He is elected bishop of Sabina

1468-1469: Creation of the first printing press in Rome. Bessarion played a leading role in this, and prints his essay against Plato’s detractors, thus taking a position in the quarrel between the Platonists and the Aristotelians of his era

1471: Bessarion fails for the second time to become Pope

25th of December 1471- fall 1472: Diplomatic mission in France

November 18th 1472: Bessarion dies in Ravenna, in Northern Italy
 
 
 
 
 

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