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  Epiphanius of Constantinople
June 5, 535) was the patriarch of Constantinople from February 25, 520 to June 5, 535, succeeding John II Cappadocia[?].
At Constantinople the zeal of Justinian I for a church policy was shewn during the patriarchate of Epiphanius by laws (e.g.
In 531 the dispute between Rome and Constantinople was revived by the appeal of Stephen, metropolitan of Larissa, to Pope Boniface II, against the sentence of Epiphanius.
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  Patriarch
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is one of the Latin Rite.
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 Saint Epiphanius - LoveToKnow 1911
On his return to Palestine he was ordained presbyter by the bishop of Eleutheropolis, and became the president of a monastery which he founded near his native place.
Zealous for the truth, but passionate and bigoted, he devoted himself to two great labours, namely, the spread of the recently established monasticism, and the confutation of heresy, of which he regarded Origen and his followers as the chief representatives.
The monks gained the support of the empress Eudoxia, and when she summoned Theophilus to Constantinople that prelate forced the aged Epiphanius to go with him.
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 Nestorius - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
451), Syrian ecclesiastic, patriarch of Constantinople from 428 to 431, was a native of Germanicia at the foot of Mount Taurus, in Syria.
On the death of Sisinnius, patriarch of Constantinople (December 427), Theodosius perplexed by the various claims of the local clergy, appointed the disinguished preacher of Antioch to the vacant see.
The union even then met with resistance from a number of bishops, who, rather than accede.to it, submitted to deposition and expulsion from their sees; and it was not until these had all died out that, as the result of stringent imperial edicts, Nestorianism may be said to have become extinct throughout the Roman empire.
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 OCA - Lives of all saints commemorated on this day
Saint Menas, Patriarch of Constantinople (536-552), was at first a presbyter at Constantinople and supervisor there of the Home of St Sampson the Hospitable for the poor and needy during the reign of St Justinian I (527-565).
Saint John the Cappadocian, Patriarch of Constantinople, occupied the patriarchal throne from 518-520.
Saint Epiphanius, Patriarch of Constantinople, occupied the cathedra from 520 to 535.
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 Epiphanius of Constantinople
Epiphanius succeeded John II (518-20) as Patriarch of Constantinople.
In that year the Patriarch John died, and Epiphanius was elected as his successor.
Epiphanius' third letter relates that a number of Eastern bishops have petitioned the emperor for union with Rome (col. 506-7), and the fourth (col. 507) praises Paulinus, whom the pope had sent to Constantinople as his legate.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Photius of Constantinople
It is certain that the future patriarch belonged to one of the great families of Constantinople; the Patriarch Tarasius (784-806), in whose time the seventh general council (Second of Nicæa, 787) was held, was either elder brother or uncle of his father (Photius: Ep.
The synod repeats Nicholas's decision, that Ignatius is lawful Patriarch of Constantinople; Photius is to be excommunicate unless he retires at once from his usurped place.
That Ignatius was the rightful patriarch as long as he lived, and Photius an intruder, cannot be denied by any one who does not conceive the Church as merely the slave of a civil government.
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 Hieromartyr Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon, in the world Basil Ivanovich Bellavin, was born on January 19, 1865 in Toropets, Pskov province, the son of a priest, Fr.
And on November 21 / December 4, 1917, Metropolitan Tikhon was enthroned as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in the Kremlin Dormition cathedral to the sound of gunfire from the battle of Moscow raging outside.
Patriarch Tikhon immediately had to face a great test of his leadership as the new Bolshevik regime passed law after law restricting and robbing the Church, while excesses and murders of Church servers throughout the country increased.
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 Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Armenia, and the East; Archbishops of Canterbury and Prince Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, Cologne, and Salzburg
The Patriarchate of Armenia was thus regarded by the Roman Church as heterodox.
Similarly heterodox was the Patriarchate of the East, seated at the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon, which had not accepted the decision of the Third Ecumenical Council.
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 Hieromartyr Tikhon, Patriarch Of Moscow And All Russia 2 of 3
Hieromartyr Tikhon, Patriarch Of Moscow And All Russia 2 of 3
Among the critics of the Patriarch on the question of church valuables was a group of pro-revolutionary "renovationist" clergy, who created the so-called "Living Church".
At the beginning of June, the Patriarch fell ill and was transferred from the Donskoy monastery to the Taganka prison.
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 Eastern Patriarchates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Treaty of Devol between Antioch and the Byzantine Empire restored the Greek patriarch, though it was never enforced and the Greek patriarch continued to be resident at Constantinople.
A Latin Patriarch continued to be appointed until the capture of the city by the Mamluks in 1268.
Patriarch Mar Shimun IV Bassidi ruled that his office would only pass to members of his own family (to a nephew, since the Patriarch was celibate).
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 Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Ministries - Community
This canon in fact defines the area of responsibility of the Patriarchal See of the Church of Constantinople by limiting it to the ancient provinces [called 'dioceses' by the Roman government of the time, Ed.] of [Proconsular] Asia, Thrace and of Pontus, that is, to the provinces that correspond to modern-day Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece.
Moreover, it is stressed that the jurisdiction of the bishop of Constantinople was extended to these territories precisely because of their nearness to the areas assigned to him by Canon 28 of Chalcedon, though in the canons themselves the possibility of such an enlargement is not foreseen.
As regards the Russian Church, she was initially subject to the Church of Constantinople not because of Canon 28 of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, but because of the general principle according to which converted peoples are subject to the Mother Church that had Christianised them, until they have acquired the conditions necessary for autocephaly.
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 PATRIARCH ST. SEVARIOUS
The Patriarch of Antioch and all the East (459-538)
He was the pride of the Patriarchs of Antioch, the luminary of scholars, an outstanding authority and the unique erudite of his generation.
The Syrian Orthodox Church in its fifth Tubden (Diptych) remembers this great Patriarch St. Severious as the crown of Syrians, the eloquent mouth, the pillar and the doctor of the Holy Church of God as a whole, the meadow abounding in blossom and who preached all the time that Mary was undoubtedly the God-bearer.
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 Hieromartyr Tikhon, Patriarch Of Moscow And All Russia
And on November21 / December 4, 1917, Metropolitan Tikhon was enthroned as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in the Kremlin Dormition cathedral to the sound of gunfire from the battle of Moscow raging outside.
On November 7/20, 1920, as the White armies boarded the ships taking them to Constantinople with several Russian hierarchs on board, he issuedhis famous ukaz no. 362, which authorized hierarchs who were out of touch with the centre to form their own autonomous administrations.
This not only gave the =E9migr=E9 bishops the basis for their independent activity, but alsohelped the patriarchal Church to survive during the ascendancy of "the Living Church" and was used by the Catacomb Church after the apostasy of Metropolitan Sergius in 1927.
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 Bari
In 530 Bishop Peter held the title of Metropolitan under Epiphanius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
It seems that the Bishops were dependent on the Patriarch of Constantinople until the tenth century.
Giovanni II (952) was able to withdraw from this influence, refusing to accept the prescriptions of the patriarch concerning liturgical points.
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 Henoticon, The
They represented to Zeno that Talaia was unworthy of the patriarchate, both as having replaced the name of Dioscorus on the diptychs, and as having perjured himself by accepting the see of Alexandria, after having, as was asserted, taken an oath that he would not seek for it.
Calandion, patriarch of Antioch, was deposed, and Peter the Fuller reinstated.
The names of the patriarchs Acacius, Fravitta, Euphemius, and Macedonius, together with those of the emperor Zeno and Anastasius, were erased from the diptychs, and Acacius was branded with a special anathema.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Epiphanius of Constantinople
The papal legates remained at Constantinople till 520.
He then draws up a very orthodox profession of faith according to the decrees of Ephesus and Chalcedon; he accepts all the dogmatic letters of St.
Leo I, and declares that he will never name in his diptychs anyone who is condemned by the pope.
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 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
An ardent proponent of monasticism and Nicene Christianity, Epiphanius was elected metropolitan of Constantia in 367 and continued as abbot of his monastery until his death.
When Patriarch John Chrysostom of Constantinople granted refuge to the Tall Brothers, whom Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria had condemned as Origenist, Epiphanius began to attack Chrysostom, his friend.
Epiphanius left Constantinople before the Council of the Oak, which deposed Chrysostom, and died at sea in 403.
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 The Bibliotheca or Myriobiblion of PHOTIUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Patriarch of Constantinople (428-431), deprived of his office by the council of Ephesus on account of his heresy.
Patriarch of Alexandria, the father of orthodoxy and the chief opponent of Arianism.
Philip was a contemporary of Sisinnius and Proclus, patriarchs of Constantinople.
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 St. Irene Chrysovalantou | Germans, Patriarch of Constantinople
Saint Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople, was born at Constantinople in the seventh century.
The holy Patriarch Germanus died in the year 740, at age ninety-five, and was buried in the Chora monastery in Constantinople.
His other works include hymns in praise of the saints, discourses on the Feasts of the Entry into the Temple, the Annunciation and the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, and on the restoration of the church in honor of the Placing of the Venerable Zone of the Most Holy Theotokos.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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 GF MetaSearch : Constantinople   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Bishop of Constantinople, excommunicated Eutyches, was the recipient of the famous "Tome of Leo," deposed by the Latrocinium, died from severe beatings in exile in 449.
A layman who became Patriarch of Constantinople by acclamation, called for the Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, champion of Church unity and of the veneration of the holy ikons.
The Bishops of Rome, the Popes; the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Armenia, and the East; Archbishops of Canterbury and Prince...
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 St. Maximus of Constantinople
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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 The Consequences of Chalcedon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Their patriarch Joseph, the bishops, and the generals of the army of Vartan had in their extreme distress appealed to Theodosius for aid against the Persians, who, they said: "were going to destroy among them the Faith received from the Prince of bishops who is at Rome." [Tournebize, _Histoire Politique et Religieuse de l'Armenie, p.
The Armenians to-day still acknowledge the pope as Patriarch of the West and the chief of the bishops of the Church--though some of its writers would have it that the primacy was conferred by the Council of Nicaea and lost by the "apostasy" of Chalcedon.
But his legates to Constantinople were imprisoned and then cajoled, with the result that they communicated with Acacius and betrayed their mission.
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 Saint James the Less
The further record of the life of Saint Epiphanius was continued by a second of his disciples, Polybios (afterwards bishop of city of Rinocyreia).
Through the intrigues of the empress Eudoxia and the Alexandria patriarch Theophilos, towards the end of his life Saint Epiphanius was summoned to Constantinople for a church council, which was convened for judgment upon the great saint, John Chrysostom (13 November).
While sailing upon the ship, the saint sensed the nearness of his death, and he gave his disciples final instructions -- to keep the Commandments of God and to preserve the mind from impure thoughts -- and two days later he died.
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O God of our Fathers, ever dealing with us according to Thy gentleness: take not Thy mercy from us, but by their entreaties guide our life in peace.
Saint Germanus, who was from Constantinople, was born to an illustrious family, the son of Justinian the Patrician.
First he became Metropolitan of Cyzicus; in 715 he was elevated to the throne of Constantinople; but because of his courageous resistance to Leo the Isaurian's impious decree which inaugurated the war upon the holy icons, he was exiled from his throne in 715.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Iconoclastic Council, 754
The Emperor, after the death of the Patriarch Anastasius (A.D. 753), summoned the bishops of his Empire to a great synod in the palace Hieria, which lay opposite to Constantinople on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, between Chrysopolis and Chalcedon, a little to the north of the latter.
The new patriarch Constantinus, presented by the emperor to the council the last day of its session, was forced to foreswear images, to attend banquets, to eat and drink freely against his monastic vows, to wear garlands, to witness the coarse spectacles and hear the coarse language which entertained the Emperor.
The orthodox Patriarchs of the East (under the rule of Islam) declared against the iconoclastic movement, and a Church without monks or pictures, in schism with the other orthodox Churches, was a nonentity.
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 Prolog: May 12
Before his death, he was summoned to Constantinople by Emperor Arcadius and his wife Eudoxia to an assembly of bishops which, according to the wish of the emperor and the empress, should have condemned St. John Chrysostom.
Arriving in Constantinople, Epiphanius went directly to the palace of the emperor where the emperor and empress detained him for a long while trying to persuade him to declare himself against Chrysostom.
As patriarch he baptized the ill-reputed Copronymos who, during the time of his baptism, soiled the water with his uncleanliness.
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