Gennadius of Constantinople

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Gennadius of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Installed458
Term ended471
Personal details
BornAntioch, Syria Prima
Died25 August 471
Moro Nero, Roman Cyprus
DenominationChalcedonian Christianity

Gennadius (

Antiochene school of literal exegesis, although few writings have been left about him. He is commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox Church on 17 November, but is not listed in the Roman Martyrology.[2]

Biography

His first public writing was quoted by

episcopate Gennadius proved his zeal for the Christian faith and the maintenance of discipline. His discretion was before long tested.[4]

oeconomus of the goods of the church of Constantinople.[3][4]

Two Egyptian solitaries told John Moschus a story which is also recorded by Theodorus Lector. The church of Saint Pope Eleutherius at Constantinople was served by a reader named Carisius, who led a disorderly life. Gennadius first reprimanded him and then had him flogged. When both measures proved ineffectual, the patriarch prayed to Eleutherius to either correct the unworthy reader or to take him from the world. Next day Carisius was found dead, to the terror of the whole town. Theodorus also relates how a painter, presuming to depict the Saviour under the form of Jupiter, had his hand withered, but was healed by the prayers of Gennadius.[4]

About the same time

ascetic, and some time later sent Gennadius to ordain him priest, which he is said to have done standing at the foot of the column, because Daniel objected to being ordained and refused to let the bishop mount the ladder. At the end of the rite, however, the patriarch ascended to give Holy Communion to the stylite and to receive it from him. Whether he then imposed his hands on him is not said. Possibly he considered it sufficient to extend them from below towards Daniel. According to Theodorus Lector, Gennadius would allow no one to become a cleric unless he had learned the Psalter by heart.[3]

Measures had been taken against

J. D. Mansi, VII, 912). An encyclical was issued, adding anathema to the former sentence.[4]

Gennadius died 25 August 471. He stands out as an able and successful administrator whom historians have roundly praised.[4]

Biblical works

John Moschus said of Gennadius to have been very mild and of great purity.

Paul of Tarsus.[3]

Gennadius wrote a commentary on Daniel and many other parts of Old Testament and on all the epistles of St. Paul, and a great number of homilies. Of these only a few fragments remain. The principal fragments of his biblical works include

Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus, and a few in the Vienna MS. gr. 166 (46).[5]

Gennadius is seen to have been a learned writer, who followed the Antiochene school of literal exegesis.[3] Romans, a series of explanatory remarks on isolated texts, is his most significant work.[5]

References

  1. ^ Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1909). The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. IV. Funk and Wagnalls. p. 452. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  2. ISBN 88-209-7210-7
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  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Chapman 1909.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Sinclair 1911.
  5. ^
    Ceillier
    , x. 343.
Attribution

Further reading

Titles of Chalcedonian Christianity
Preceded by
Anatolius
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

458–471 		Succeeded by
Acacius
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