early 13th c.: Andronikos is born, probably in Paphlagonia
1253: As metropolitan of Sardis, Andronikos is put at head of a delegation sent to Pope Innocent IV to discuss the union of the Churches
1256: Andronikos participates in a council at Nymphaion
1260: Andronikos resigns his metropolitan throne of Sardis. He becomes a monk and retires to the monastery of Christ Saviour in Selymbria, under the name Athanasios
1265: Andronikos is exiled
1282: Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos recalls him from exile. Andronikos of Sardis is put himself at the head of a group of followers of the former Patriarch Arsenios Autoreianos
1283: He returns to the metropolis of Sardis
1284: Andronikos is accused of high treason; he is sentenced for breaking faith with monastic life and illegally assuming the metropolitan throne; he is dethroned
late 13th c.: Death of Andronikos