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  John Scholasticus
In 565 Eutychius I of Constantinople was deposed, and John succeeded him.
For instance, the first title is: "Of the honour towards patriarchs ordained by the Canons." This is established by canons vii and vi of Nicaea, ii of Constantinople I, viii of Ephesus.
After he became patriarch, John III enlarged his collection to sixty titles, and added to it eighty-seven chapters from the "Novellae" of Justinian.
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 The Sack of Constantinople   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
It was now that it was made plain to the court of Constantinople that this Crusade had not stopped here to continue onwards to the east, but to place Alexius IV on the throne of the eastern empire.
So, with the happening of one night, the ancient city of Constantinople had seen the reign of of the co-emperors Isaac II and Alexius IV come to end, a reluctant nobleman called Nicholas Canobus elected for a matter of hours, before Alexius Ducas alas was recognized after usurping the throne for himself.
The usurper was crowned emperor at the Santa Sophia by the patriarch of Constantinople.
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 Roman Emperors DIR John II Comnenus, Emperor of Cyprus
John had refused to renew the treaty that his father Alexius had made with the Venetians, no doubt in part due to the fact that Sicily was no longer perceived as a threat.
John was delayed from marching immediately to its rescue due to the death of his wife (Cinnamus[[12]]).
John's sojourn in Byzantium was brief, for, despite illness, he needed to go to the rescue of Lopadium in Mysia (spring 1139), and the regions of the Sangarius river.
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 Pope John III
By feminine intrigue at the court of Constantinople, a charge of treason was trumped up against the general, and, in consequence, the only man capable of resisting the barbarians was recalled.
John retired to the catacomb of Prætextatus, where he remained for many months.
John died 13 July, 574, and was buried in St. Peter's.
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 Pope Boniface III
Boniface III was Pope from February 19 to November 12, 607.
The son of John Cataadioce, he was a Roman by birth although of Greek extraction.
On the death of Pope Sabinianus in February 606, Boniface was elected his successor although his return from Constantinople to Rome was delayed by almost a year.
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 Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. John.
John of Suabia, called the Parricide, because he murdered his father Albert, after which he was a fugitive and a vagabond on the face of the earth, etc., etc.
John, being jealous of the state kept by the abbot, declared he should be put to death unless he answered three questions.
John the Evangelist is represented writing his gospel; or bearing a chalice, from which a serpent issues, in allusion to his driving the poison from a cup presented to him to drink.
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 The Fourth Crusade and the Fall of Constantinople
Constantinople was the greatest city of Christendom in the Middle Ages.
Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, but the Byzantine Empire’s ruin was accomplished two and a half centuries earlier at the hands of fellow Christians.
Emperor Alexios III led an enormous army from the main gate of the landward wall, threatening the crusaders at the north end, and forcing a general retreat.
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 John Scholasticus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Scholasticus (died August 31, 577) was the 32nd patriarch of Constantinople from April 12, 565 until his death in 577.
John was ordained and became agent and secretary of his church.
To the canons of the councils of Nicaea, Ancyra, Neocaesarea, Gangra, Antioch, Ephesus, and Constantinople, already collected and received in the Greek church, John added 89 "Apostolical Canons," the 21 of Sardica, and the 68 of the canonical letter of Basil.
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 Photos of Constantinople
Constantinople had a population of 1000000 habitants while the second largest city in Europe had 50000.
On 726, Leo III Isaurian abolished the slavery in the farms.
John II Comnenos (1118-1143) abolished the tortures and the death penalty.
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 Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : October 23, 2004 : John of Capistrano
John was a native of Capistrano, in Italy.
John was born in 1386 at Capistrano in the Italian Province of the Abruzzi.
John became a lawyer and attained the position of governor of Perugia.
www.catholicculture.org /lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2004-10-23   (666 words)

  
 John III Ducas Vatatzes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John III, surnamed Vatatzes and also Ducas, East Roman emperor, earned for himself such distinction as a soldier that in 1222 he was chosen to succeed his father-in-law Theodore I Lascaris.
Though unsuccessful in a siege of Constantinople, which he undertook in concert with the Bulgarians (1235), he obtained supremacy over the despotats of Thessalonica and Epirus.
The ultimate recovery of Constantinople by the Rhomaic emperors is chiefly due to his exertions.
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 John III Byzantine emperor of Nicaea Byzantine Gold Solidus Coins & Coin Jewelry
John III, Byzantine emperor of Nicaea (John Ducas Vatatzes) (d´ks vtt´zz) (KEY), d.
It appears to have lost some of its importance during the early Roman era a few hundred years later, but this changed dramatically with the split of the empire into west and east.
The church of Hagia Sophia was built by Justinian I in the middle of the city in the 6th century (modelled after the larger Hagia Sophia in Constantinople), and it was there that the Second Council of Nicaea met in 787 to discuss the issues of iconography.
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 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Elected patriarch in 582/583, John became an intimate of Emperor Maurice and instituted, in spite of imperial disagreement, capital punishment for magicians.
John declared the see of Constantinople the equal of Rome and took the title Ecumenical Patriarch, over the protests of Pelagius and Gregory the Great.
John based his "Repentance, Self-control, and Virginity" on the work of John Chrysostom, and although a penitential has long been attributed to John, scholars now doubt the work is his.
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 John III - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
JOHN III [John III] (John Ducas Vatatzes), d.
1254, Byzantine emperor of Nicaea (1222-54), successor and son-in-law of Theodore I. He extended his territory in Asia Minor and the Aegean islands but failed (1235) to take Constantinople from the Latins, although he was aided by Ivan II of Bulgaria.
John Thomas III Moving Into New Role at Thomas Built Buses; * Great Grandson of Founder, Company President Since 1992 To Advise Business * Succeeded by John O'Leary as Head of Leading School Bus Manufacturer.
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 St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary - Beyond Dialogue: The Quest for Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Unity ...
Thus at III Constantinople the contemporary monothelites were seen as holding, among other things, the heresy of Apollinarius, who had held that Jesus Christ did not possess a human rational soul (nous) - a heresy which, according to III Constantinople, was condemned at I Constantinople (381 A.D.).
In fact the story of I Constantinople is much more complex than a reading simply of the acts of III Constantinople would suggest; at I Constantinople itself, the question of Apollinarius’ teaching seems to have been tangential at most.
John Romanides, an Eastern Orthodox theologian deeply engaged in the theological dialogue with the Oriental Orthodox: “The backbone of the Orthodox tradition is the fact that the Logos became consubstantial with us.
www.svots.edu /Faculty/John-Erickson/articles/beyond-dialogue.html   (6717 words)

  
 John Chapman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He is one of the chief names in the Monothelite controversy one of the chief doctors of the theology of the Incarnation and of ascetic mysticism, and remarkable as a witness to the respect for the papacy held by the Greek Church in his day.
But those of Constantinople, admiring their piety, thought that such a deed ought to be recompensed; and ceasing from urging the document on them, they promised by their diligence to procure the issue of the emperor's order with regard to the episcopal election.
As the saint was recognized as the leader of the orthodox Easterns, he was sent to Constantinople at the end of 655 (not, as is commonly stated, at the same time as St. Martin).
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 A History of the General Councils - AD 325 through AD 1870 - Mgr. Philip Hughes
But Cyrus referred the monk to Constantinople, and Constantinople bade him be silent, and not start a new controversy, viz., whether in the Word Incarnate there were two "operations" or only one, but keep to the acknowledged teaching that the single person Jesus Christ works acts that are divine and also acts that are human.
This convoy reached Constantinople in September, and the emperor forthwith ordered his new patriarch to summon all the metropolitans and bishops subject to him to attend a conference where the theory of "one operation" and "one will" would be examined.
Abbot John Chapman, The Condemnation of Pope Hononus, 15.
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 Orthodox Saints. Lives. St. Joseph the Hymnographer of Sicily.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Things were difficult for the Church of Constantinople it was very difficult, as the Emperor and the Patriarch were both iconoclasts.
At that time, the Roman bishops were part of the Universal Church, and Pope Leo III, who was not subject to the authority of the Byzantine Emperor, was able to render great assistance to the Orthodox.
On the night of the Nativity in the year 820, he was made worthy to see a vision of St. Nicholas of Myra in Lycia, who announced to him that the iconoclast/persecutor Leo the Armenian had died, and that the campaign against the Holy Icons had ended.
www.stjohndc.org /russian/saints/e_0104c.htm   (1070 words)

  
 Selected Sermons of Saint John of Shanghai Part III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The announcement of the same Archangel Gabriel six months later in Nazareth to the Virgin Mary concerning the birth from Her of the Son of God, Who was to become incarnate, is a continuation of the revelation of the Pre-eternal Counsel concerning the salvation of the human race.
Thus, the child John prepared the way for the Lord by his very birth; and even while he was still in the womb of His mother, by his leaping (Luke 1:41) he announced the coming birth of the Child Jesus, as if crying out: "Christ is born, give ye glory.
Increasing without limit their desires to submit to themselves parts of Russia, the Patriarchs of Constantinople have even begun to declare the uncanonicity of the annexation of Kiev to the Moscow Patriarchate, and to declare that the previously existing southern Russian Metropolia of Kiev should be subject to the Throne of Constantinople.
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 Tiberius III
The emperor Leontius sent a naval fleet under the command of John the Patrician to retake Byzantine Africa.
Tiberius gathered a fleet and sailed to lay siege to Constantinople which was being ravaged by a plague.
In August 705, Tiberius fled Constantinople when he was informed that Justinian II was approaching the city with a large army.
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 Selected Sermons of Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco (Part III)
The Nativity of John the Baptist is the first joy sent down by God to the human race, the beginning of its deliverance from the power of the devil, sin and eternal death.
Just as the very event of the Nativity of John the Baptist was the antechamber of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, so also the feast of the Nativity of John the Forerunner is also the antechamber of the feast of the Nativity of Christ.
"The star of stars, the Forerunner, is born on earth today, from a barren womb, John the beloved of God, and manifests the dawning of Christ, the Orient from on high" (Glory at Lauds, of the Feast, June 24).
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 Papal Timeline
*Muhammad (570-632), the founder of Islam, was born during John III's papacy.
Changed name to John since he was unwilling to keep his baptismal name of Peter.
Perhaps the most beloved of all popes, John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council whose impact includes expanding the role of the laity, liturgical renewal, collegiality of bishops, and ecumenism.
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 AllRefer.com - John III, Byzantine emperor of Nicaea (Ancient History, Late Roman And Byzantine, Biography) - ...
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John III, Byzantine emperor of Nicaea, Ancient History, Late Roman And Byzantine, Biographies
John III (John Ducas Vatatzes)[doo´kus vutat´zEz] Pronunciation Key, d.
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 John III Vatatzes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John inherited the empire of Nicaea from Theodore, his father in law.
Although not quite as gifted as Theodore in terms of military ability, he was nevertheless a good role model for Nicaeans who needed a morale boost, still reeling after a generation or two for the loss of Constantinople.
Rev: John III standing facing, holding labarum and patriarchal cross.
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Here the Persians were within one mile of Constantinople, and they were there for ten years.
At this point, Patriarch Sergius of Constantinople ignited a new wave of patriotism in Constantinople.
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 Constantinople - List of Items - MSN Encarta
Constantinople - List of Items - MSN Encarta
Ottoman Empire, previously centered in Constantinople (now Istanbul)
Byzantine Art and Architecture, much of which originated in Constantinople
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 Patron Saints Index: Pope John VIII
Strongly opposed the work of Saint Ignatius of Constantinople in Bulgaria.
When Ignatius died, John recognized Photius as patriarch and called the council (879-880) that briefly reconciled differences between East and West.
He did much to root out corruption in the church in Rome, excommunicated corrupt nobility, and was one of the strongest popes of the 9th century, though he was forced to bribe Saracens to keep them out of Rome.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0107.htm   (166 words)

  
 Russia.
In the fifteenth century, after the fall of Constantinople, John III., Grand Duke of Moscow, married the Byzantine Princess Sophia Paleologue (hence the Byzantine eagle adopted as the Russian coat-of-arms); from this time several names of women appear in history.
A happy period in the reign of this cruel monarch, surnamed "The Terrible," is due to the influence of Anastasia Romanovna, one of his seven wives.
Foreign ambassadors who were received in state at the Muscovite court were strongly impressed by the sight of two royal boys sitting on a double-seated throne, and obeying the whisper of a female voice coming from behind a curtain.
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 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John was an archdeacon at the time of his election to the papacy (640), and as pope, he condemned Pelagianism and monothelitism.
He also condemned the Celtic church's practice in calculating the date of Easter.
John defended Honorius I's interpretation of the wills of Christ in a letter to Emperor Constantine III because John believed that the clergy in Rome and in Constantinople had failed to understand Honorius' reasoning properly.
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 John III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John III was the name of a number of rulers:
Yohannes III, Emperor of Ethiopia (ruler several times in the 1840s) sometimes known as John III
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
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