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Arsenius Apostolius was the son of Michael Apostolius. He was born about 1468 in Crete and in 1492 he moved to Italy.
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He was also bishop of Monemvasia in the Peloponnese. In 1506 the Roman Curia appointed Arsenius as Eastern Rite bishop of Monemvasia, at that time part of the regions subjected to the Venetian Republic. This position was untenable for the Church of Constantinople and Patriarch Pachomius I of Constantinople invited Arsenius to abdicate.
The issue went on for more than two years until June 1509, when Pachomius excommunicated Arsenius, who retired to Venice.
Arsenius later travelled widely in Italy and Greece until he died in Venice in 1538.
