enthroned ended previous_post death_date religion other_post title nationality article_title birth_date ordination name
1379/80 1384 patriarchal -rrb- bishop of taurezion -lrb- ca. 1375 -rrb- exarch of antioch -lrb- ca. 1368 -- 70 after 1394 eastern orthodox , between 1379 -- 94 roman catholic bishop of taurezion -lrb- greek orthodox -rrb- latin patriarch of constantinople greek paul palaiologos tagaris
 1320/40 ca. 1368 paul palaiologos tagaris
paul palaiologos tagaris

paul palaiologos tagaris -lrb- , ca. 1320/40 -- after 1394 -rrb- was a byzantine greek monk and impostor .
a scion of the tagaris family , paul also claimed a connection with the imperial palaiologos dynasty .
he fled his marriage as a teenager and became a monk , but soon his fraudulent practices embroiled him in scandal .
fleeing constantinople , he travelled widely , from palestine to persia and georgia and eventually , via ukraine and hungary to italy , latin greece , cyprus and france .
during his long and tumultuous career he was appointed an orthodox bishop , sold ordinations to ecclesiastical offices , pretended to be the orthodox patriarch of jerusalem , switched from greek orthodoxy to roman catholicism and back again , supported both the see of rome and the avignon anti-popes in the western schism , and finally managed to be named latin patriarch of constantinople .
in the end , his deceptions unmasked , he returned to constantinople , where he repented and confessed his sins before a synod in 1394 .
