Menas of Constantinople

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Roman Catholic Church
Feast25 August
ControversyThree-Chapter Controversy

Menas (also Minas;

monophysite. This was the first time that a Roman Pope
consecrated a Patriarch of Constantinople.

At some date very soon after his election he received the order (keleusis) from the Emperor, whose text is not preserved, but which instructed him to call a

excommunicated sees of the same theological persuasion. Justinian and Menas' efforts for doctrinal Church unity would meet with failure.[5]

It was during his patriarchate that emperor Justinian's church of

Fifth Ecumenical Council, to reconcile the Western and Eastern Churches around the Three-Chapter Controversy, to be chaired ultimately by his successor Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople in 553.[6]

He died peacefully in 552. His feast day in both the

Roman Catholic
traditions is observed on August 25.

References

  1. ^ Tatiana Starodubcev, "Physician and miracle worker. The cult of Saint Sampson the Xenodochos and his images in eastern Orthodox medieval painting". Zograf, Vol. 2015, no. 39, pp. 25 – 46. https://doi.org/10.2298/ZOG1539025S
  2. ^ Fergus Miller, "Linguistic Co-existence in Constantinople: Greek and Latin (and Syriac) in the Acts of the Synod of 536 c.e", The Journal of Roman Studies, 11/2009, Volume 99. https://doi.org/10.3815/007543509789745287
  3. ^ Millar, F. (2008). Rome, Constantinople and the Near Eastern Church under Justinian: Two Synods of C.E. 536. Journal of Roman Studies, p. 71. doi:10.3815/007543508786239102
  4. ^ The Novels of Justinian. See https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/Novellae_Scott.htm
  5. ^ Millar, F. (2008). Rome, Constantinople and the Near Eastern Church under Justinian: Two Synods of C.E. 536. Journal of Roman Studies, 98, p. 81. doi:10.3815/007543508786239102
  6. ^ Lieve van Hoof and Peter van Nuffelen, "The Historiography of Crisis: Jordanes, Cassiodorus and Justinian in mid-sixth-century Constantinople", The Journal of Roman Studies, Volume 107 , November 2017 , pp. 275 - 300 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435817000284

External links

  • Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Mennas" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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Titles of Chalcedonian Christianity
Preceded by
Anthimus I
Patriarch of Constantinople

536–552
Succeeded by
Eutychius