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[[Image:Nifon-nephon2.jpg|right|frame|Nephon II of Constantinople]]His All-Holiness '''Nephon II of Constantinople''', also '''Nifon II''', was the Patriarch of Constantinople for two periods, from 1486 to 1488 and then from 1497 to 1498. He was called again, a third time in 1502, but refused the invitation.
He was born on the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece. His mother was a noble Greek woman and his father a rich Albanian nobleman. He entered a [[monasticism|monastic]] life as a [[monk]] at Epidaurus and later moved to [[Mount Athos]]. Before his election as [[patriarch]], he was [[Archbishop]] of [[Thessalonica]].
