Constantine Akropolites, or Acropolites (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Ἀκροπολίτης, Konstantinos Akropolitês) (died before August 1324), was a Byzantine scholar and statesman in the fourteenth century.
Constantine Akropolites was the son of the scholar and statesman George Akropolites and became a minister of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, until the Emperor dismissed him for his opposition to the union of churches created by the Second Council of Lyon (1272).
[1]: 253 Like his father, Akropolites wrote much on theology, especially on the more recondite doctrines, such as the procession of the Holy Ghost.
In compiling lives of saints, such as that of Thomais of Lesbos,[4] he was more usefully employed—that of St. John of Damascus is in the huge collection of Jean Bolland.
According to Donald Nicol, his numerous versions of saints' lives earned him the name of Neos Metaphrastes.