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John Mauropous was born in Paphlagonia around 1000.
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He came to Constantinople, and quickly gained a reputation as a teacher. Among his students, Michael Psellos was to be the most important. lieutenant was also Psellos who introduced him to the emperor Constantine IX Monomachos (1042-1055).
Foreign a couple of years, Mauropous belonged to the favoured circle of poets and scholars that Constantine gathered around him, and he functioned as a court orator.
But for an unknown reason, these friends suddenly fell from favour around the year 1050, and presumably on this occasion, Mauropous was appointed metropolitan of Euchaita. In many letters, Mauropous complained of this "honourable exile", and asked his friend Psellos to urge the succeeding emperors to call Mauropous back to the capital.
This seems to have succeeded at the end of Mauropous" life: he retired to the monastery of Agia Petra in Constantinople. He died presumably in the 1070s.
Johannis Euchaitarum metropolitae quae supersunt in cod.
Vaticano graeco 676 Education P. de Lagarde and J. Bollig. Berlin 1882 (Standard modern edition).
Karpozilos A., The Letters of Ioannes Mauropous Metropolitan of Euchaita, Thessaloniki 1990.
Follieri East., "The "Living Heirmologion" in the Hymnographic Production of John Mauropus, Metropolitan of Euchaita", Studies in Eastern Chant 4 (1979) 54-75 (for references to publications of liturgical works).
