To provide an aromatic polycabonate little in foreign matter content and superior in hue while maintaining molding characteristics.

This aromatic polycarbonate is an aromatic polycarbonate which is obtainable by a transesterification method and of which the viscosity-average molecular weight is 16,000 or larger, and in which the value expressed by formular (1):α=p2 ρ/[1-p2 (1-ρ)] is 0.03 to 0.3, and the number of fisheyes is in the range of 1,500 or smaller. In a method of manufacturing the aromatic polycarbonate composition, in filtering the aromatic polycarbonate with a polymer filter during the time when it is still in a molten state and after adding an additive to it and kneading it, the filter element of the polymer filter has a supporting plate for the filter.