Die ersten drei Amtsjahre Jeremias I. von Konstantinopel nach dem Codex Ann Arbor 215.

A new era in the history of the Patriarchate of Constantinople began after the Turkish conquest of the capital. The tenure of Patriarch Ieremias I was the first to be stable and prolonged. But this stability, which led to a remarkable improvement in the Patriarchate's organisational structures as witnessed inter alia by an increase in the number of monasteries, had to be earned. After his enthronement, Ieremias had to overcome those long-standing problems of the Patriarchate that had been the reason why his predecessors' tenures had been so short. This had mostly resulted from the interference of the Archontes, and Ieremias himself was not spared a brief deposition at the beginning of his tenure, when he was replaced by his rival Ioannikios. This study investigates these turbulent first years of Ieremias' tenure, examining the context of his election, his journey to Egypt and Jerusalem, and his deposition. Furthermore, the study presents new evidence from the University of Michigan's Codex Ann Arbor 215 with regard to these events and enables one to place their circumstances in a new light, and to better understand the institutional functions of the Patriarchate during the 1520s.