Pyrrhus of Constantinople

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Pyrrhus of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Installed638
Term ended641, 654
Personal details
DenominationChalcedonian 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

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

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  • Hovorun, Cyril (2008). Will, Action and Freedom: Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century. Leiden-Boston: BRILL. .

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Titles of Chalcedonian Christianity
Preceded by
Sergius I
Patriarch of Constantinople

638–641
Succeeded by
Paul II
Preceded by
Paul II
Patriarch of Constantinople

654
Succeeded by
Peter