Gerasimus I of Constantinople (; died 20 April 1321)Fordham University website, Byzantium Texts page was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1320 to 1321.Apostolic Pilgrimage website, List of Patriarchs
He was born in Philadelphia and became abbot of the prestigious Mangana Monastery in Constantinople. He was elected as patriarch at an advanced age and died on 20 April 1321.
He became Patriarch during the reign of Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos; the Emperor found him to be "docile".Google Books website, History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires from MLVII to MCCCCLIII, Volume 1 by George Finlay, page 474.
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See also Gerasimus of the Jordan, 5th century saint Gerasimus I of Jerusalem, 19th century Patriarch of Jerusalem Gerasimus of Kefalonia, patron saint of Kefalonia, Greece