His All-Holiness Anthimus VI Koutalianos was the 249th Patriarch of Constantinople during the middle of the nineteenth century. He served as patriarch for three separate periods: from 1845 to 1848, from 1853 to 1855, and from 1871 to 1873. He criticized papal ambitions to exercise authority over a universal Catholic Church and convened a local council in 1872 that condemned “phyletism”.