Aristarchis, Stavrakis

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Stavrakis Aristarchis was born in Istanbul (Turkey), in 1834 or 1836. He was appointed senator of the Ottoman Empire in 1876. He also was a Great Logothete of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Following the Greco-Turkish war of 1921-1922, he was forced to leave Istanbul and to sell off part of his library to the Vatican. He died in 1925.