Maximos Margunios Bishop of Cyrigo (Kythira

Kythira

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), was a Greek

Greeks

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 Renaissance humanist

Renaissance humanism

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. He was a teacher at the Greek school in Venice

Venice

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 and noted Patriarch Cyril Lucaris

Cyril Lucaris

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 was among his students, Margunios was a supporter of ecclesiastical Union with Rome

Rome

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 and wrote on the theology of the procession of the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit

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. Margunios was also noted for his charitable and moderate views on the Latin Church.

Known works

• Three Books Concerning the Procession of the Holy Ghost
• Arguments against the Latins
• Dialogue between a Greek and a Latin

See also

• Greek scholars in the Renaissance
  Greek scholars in the Renaissance
  The migration of Byzantine scholars and other émigrés from southern Italy and Byzantium during the decline of the Byzantine Empire and mainly after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the 16th century, is considered by some scholars as key to the revival of Greek and Roman studies and...