Menas of Constantinople
Roman Catholic Church | |
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Feast | 25 August |
Controversy | Three-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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ The Novels of Justinian. See https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/Anglica/Novellae_Scott.htm
- ^ 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
- ^ 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). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
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