Pyrrhus of Constantinople
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Pyrrhus of Constantinople | |
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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople | |
Installed | 638 |
Term ended | 641, 654 |
Personal details | |
Denomination | Chalcedonian Christianity |
Pyrrhus (
ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople
from 20 December 638 to 29 September 641, and again from 9 January to 1 June 654.
He was a supporter of
Africa. Soon after, Martina and Heraklonas were also deposed and exiled; Constans II
, Constantine's son, was proclaimed the sole emperor.
While in exile, in 645 he conducted with
excommunicated by Pope Theodore I
as a consequence, but succeeded in becoming again patriarch in early 654, holding the office until his death on 1 June of the same year.
He was posthumously cast out as heretical by the Third Council of Constantinople in 680/1.
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-88-141056-3.
- Hovorun, Cyril (2008). Will, Action and Freedom: Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century. Leiden-Boston: BRILL. ISBN 978-9004166660.
External links
- Richard Barrie Dobson, ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages: Pyrrhus I of Constantinople. Vol. 2. p. 1201. ISBN 9781579582821.