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Joseph II, patriarch of Constantinople (1416–1439), was born in 1360 in Bulgaria, perhaps the illegitimate son of the future Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria and a Greek mother. He became patriarch of Constantinople on 21 May 1416 after serving as Metropolis of Ephesus. Thus he was almost eighty years old when he died.