page_title: John VI Kantakouzenos
hierarchical_section_title: John VI Kantakouzenos
caption_attribution_description: Byzantine Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos presiding over a synod. The Hesychast Council of Constantinople, 1351. Constantinople, 1370-75, paint on parchment, Greek Manuscript 1242, fol.5 v, 33,5x24 cm, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
context_page_description: John VI Kantakouzenos, Cantacuzenus, or Cantacuzene was a Greek nobleman, statesman, and general. He served as grand domestic under Andronikos III Palaiologos and regent for John V Palaiologos before reigning as Byzantine emperor in his own right from 1347 to 1354. Deposed by his former ward, he was made to retire to a monastery under the name Joasaph Christodoulos and spent the remainder of his life as a monk and historian. At age 90 or 91 at his death, he was the longest living of the Roman emperors.
context_section_description: John VI Kantakouzenos, Cantacuzenus, or Cantacuzene (Greek: Ἰωάννης Ϛʹ Καντακουζηνός, Iōannēs VI′ Kantakouzēnos; Latin: Johannes Cantacuzenus; c. 1292 – 15 June 1383) was a Greek nobleman, statesman, and general. He served as grand domestic under Andronikos III Palaiologos and regent for John V Palaiologos before reigning as Byzantine emperor in his own right from 1347 to 1354. Deposed by his former ward, he was made to retire to a monastery under the name Joasaph Christodoulos and spent the remainder of his life as a monk and historian. At age 90 or 91 at his death, he was the longest living of the Roman emperors.
caption: John VI presiding over a synod
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