Benjamin Evsevides

Veniamin (Benjamin) Evsevidis , born as Dimitrios Evsevidis (Δημήτριος Ευσεβίδης; 20 June 1821 – 1895 or 1897) was a bishop of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church.

Biography Dimitrios Evsevidis was born in a Greek Orthodox family on 20 June 1821 in Constantinople. He studied at the Great School of the Nation and later at the Halki seminary. and auxiliary bishop of the metropolis of Dabar-Bosna, based in Sarajevo, then under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople.

His Catholic philosophical tendencies were discovered in a letter intercepted by the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, and he was charged of apostasy. The pontifical apostolic delegation requested help from the French embassy, and Ambassador Édouard Thouvenel became involved in the liberation of the archbishop, obtaining an order for release from the authorities.

Thanks to the priest Joseph Lepavec, in 1863 he traveled to Rome, where he was confirmed at his home.

He participated in the First Vatican Council In 1882 he ordered to the priesthood Isaias Papadopoulos, the future exarch of the Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul.

He died in 1895 or, according to other sources, in 1897 and is buried in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit of Istanbul.