Synod of Constantinople (1484)

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The Synod of Constantinople in 1484 was a local synod of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It was the first synod to condemn the Council of Florence.[1]

History

After the 1453

Ottoman Sultan, both during his second reign with his policy towards Trebizond and, during his last reign, by convening a synod to formally ratify the separation of the Catholic Church.[3]

The Synod of Constantinople was convened by Patriarch Symeon I and lasted from September 1483 until August 1484.

Western rule (e.g. the Duchy of Athens) and to the Ottoman system of government of the minorities (the millet system
) which subjected the Catholics to the civil authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople, causing numerous conversions to Orthodoxy.

The Synod, as preliminary remark, stated that the Council of Florence had been not canonically summoned or composed, and so its decrees were null and void, and then approved a ritual for the reception for the converts which required the Chrismation and an abjuration of the Council of Florence (but not a re-baptism).[4]

The 1484 Synod of Constantinople was the first synod to condemn the Council of Florence, as the so-called 1450 Synod of Saint Sophia never took place and its documents are a forgery of the early 17th century.

Venetian Republic until the 18th century.[5]

Notes

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  3. ^ Moustakas Konstantinos. "Symeon I of Constantinople". Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia Minor. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
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  5. ISBN 978-0-913836-81-1
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