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| | The Church In Crisis: Chapter 8 |
 | | The eighth General Council, Constantinople 869-70, was about the consequences of the expulsion of an intruded patriarch, Photius, and the restoration of the rightful patriarch, his predecessor, Ignatius. |
 | | The outcome was a second council at Constantinople, to which 383 bishops came, with Photius as the central figure — but where he presided, and to which the presence of three papal legates gave the full outward sign of the pope's approval. |
 | | The remnants of anti-Photians, at Constantinople and elsewhere, were now told by the pope that he was their lawful patriarch, and that they were not to oppose him in the name of the council of 869, for the former things had passed away. |
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