Fravitta of Constantinople
Fravitta of Constantinople | |
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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople | |
Installed | 489 |
Term ended | 490 |
Personal details | |
Denomination | Chalcedonian Christianity |
Fravitta (Greek: Φραβίτας, Fravitas; d. 490),[1] also known as Fravitas,[1] Flavitas, or Flavianus II, was the patriarch of Constantinople (489–490).[2]
According to
Fravitta was a presbyter in charge of the suburban church of Saint Thecla.[3] Fueled with ambition, he paid the eunuch large sums, and promised him more, to write his name on the blank sheet. At the end of the 40 days the casket was opened; the name of Fravitta was found, and he was enthroned amid universal acclamations. Within 4 months he died, and the powerful eunuch was pressing his executors for the promised gold. They revealed the odious tale to the emperor. The forger was turned out of all his employments and driven from the city. The emperor Zeno, ashamed of his failure, entrusted the election of the new patriarch to the clergy.[2]
However, the correspondence between Zeno, Fravitta, and Pope Felix III on the appointment show no trace of this story.[2]
Fravitta simultaneously wrote letters to Pope
When the Pope, however, wished the monks from Constantinople to undertake that the names of Acacius and Mongus should be rejected from the diptychs, they replied that they had no instructions on that point. The joy of the Pope was destroyed by the arrival at Rome of a copy of the letter which Fravitta had sent to Mongus, denying all communion with Rome.[4] The Pope would not hear a word more from the monks. Whether the story of Nicephorus be true or not, Fravitta stands disgraced by this duplicity.[2]
References
- ^ a b Fravitas Ecumenical Patriarchate
- ^ a b c d e f Sinclair 1911.
- ^ "Fravitta", The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. James Strong and John McClintock; Harper and Brothers; NY; 1880
- ^ Winstanley, Edmund. An outline of ecclesiastical and civil history, Vol. 2, p. 219
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Sinclair, W. M. (1911). "Fravitta, bp. of Constantinople". In Wace, Henry; Piercy, William C. (eds.). Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century (3rd ed.). London: John Murray. Sinclair cites:
- Evagrius. iii. 23, Patr. Gk. lxxxvi. part ii.;
- Felicis Pap. Ep. xii. and xiii. Patrologia Latina lviii. p. 971;
- Joann. Zonar. Annal. xiv. iii. Patrologia Graeca cxxxiv. § 53, p. 1214;
- Liberat. Diac. Brev. xviii. Patr. Lat. lxviii.;
- Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulosxvi. 19, Patr. Gk. cxlvii. § 684. p. 152;
- Theophanes Chronogr. 114, Patr. Gk. cviii. p 324.