The Patriarch of Constantinople is the Ecumenical Patriarch, the "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox communion. In this capacity he is first in honor among all the Orthodox bishops, presides over any council of bishops in which he takes part and serves as primary spokesman for the communion, but has no jurisdiction over the other patriarchs or the other autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches.
In addition to being spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, he is the direct administrative head of some four million Ukrainian, Greek, Carpatho-Russian and Al ...
The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople is today head of one of the smallest Patriarchates of the Oriental Orthodox Church but has exerted a very significant political role and today still exercises a spiritual authority which earns him considerable respect among Orthodox churches. Despite a huge diminution in the number of its faithful, the patriarchate is still the largest Christian community in Turkey. He is under the ...
In 726 Emperor Leo III published an edict forbidding the use of images in the Church. His soldiers consequently removed images from churches throughout the Byzantine Empire.
Germanus, the patriarch of Constantinople, protested the edict. He wrote a letter appealing to Pope Gregory II in Rome in 729. Emperor Leo deposed Germanus as patriarch soon afterwards. Pope Gergory opposed Leo and urged him to retract the edict, which Leo refused to do.
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When the Ottomans conquered Constantinople, now Istanbul, both the Emperor and the Patriarch were killed. The position of head of the Orthodox Church was given to Gennadius II Scholarius by the conquering Islamic Ottoman ruler, Sultan Mehmed II. The modern Turkish state requires the Patriarch to be a Turkish citizen but allows the Synod of Constantinople to elect him.
Human rights groups, EU governements, and the U.S. government, have long protested conditions placed by the government of Turkey on the Ecumenical Patriarch. For example ...
As Constantine the Great had made Byzantium "New Rome" in 330, it was thought appropriate that its bishop, once a suffragan of Heraclea, should become second only to the Bishop of Old Rome. Soon after the transfer of the Roman capital, the bishopric was elevated to an archbishopric.[1] For many decades Roman popes opposed this ambition, not because anyone thought of disputing their first place, but because they were unwilling to change the old order of the hie ...
Constantinople1 (Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις) was the earlier name of the modern city of İstanbul in Turkey in its role over more than a millennium as capital, first of the Eastern Roman Empire, subsequently of the Byzantine Empire. The last imperial designation reveals the city's even more ancient Greek name: Byzantium. Constantinople was located strategically between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe met Asia, and was highly ...
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The Anglo-Saxons under Ceawlin of Wessex defeat the British Celts at the Battle of Deorham.
Northern Qi Hou Zhu succeeded by Northern Qi You Zhu, then by Northern Qi Fan Yang Wang.
Eutychius is restored as Patriarch of Constantinople.
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August 31 - John Scholasticus, Patriarch of Constantinople
Saint Brendan (p ...
Archon (Gr. αρχων, pl. αρχοντες) is a Greek word that means "ruler" or the like, though it is frequently encountered as the title of some specific public office. In form the word is simply the masculine participle of the verb stem αρχο-, derived from the same root that appears in words such as monarch and hierarchy.
In the early literary period of ancient Greece the chief magistrates of various Greek city states were called Archons. The term was also used throughout Greek history in a more general sense, ra ...
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August 31 - Paul IV abdicates as Patriarch of Constantinople
December 25 - Tarasius elected Patriarch of Constantinople
The Japanese capital moved away from Nara. End of the Nara period.
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February 4 - Hrabanus Maurus, German poet
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The Council of Encaenia is held in Antioch.
Paul I is restored as Patriarch of Constantinople.
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Ko Hung (or Ge Hong), famous Chinese physician (death perhaps 343)
Eusebius of Nicomedia, Patriarch of Constantinople
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148 - Events.
Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Athendodorus to Patriarch Euzois
An Shih Kao arrives in China.
148 - Births.
148 - Deaths.
Aeulius Nicon
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Pope Pontian succeeds Pope Urban I
Patriarch Castinus succeeds Patriarch Ciriacus I as Patriarch of Constantinople
Ardashir I of Persia invades the Roman province of Mesopotamia.
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Pope Hyginus succeeds Pope Telesphorus
First year of Yonghe era of the Chinese Han Dynasty
Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Eleutherius to Patriarch Felix
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April 12 - Nicephorus elected patriarch of Constantinople, succeeding Tarasius.
Emperor Heizei succeeds Emperor Kammu as Emperor of Japan.
Dalmatia for a short time is part of the Frankish rather than the Byzantine Empire.
The Saracens sack Nola.
Wulfred consecrated as archbishop of Canterbury.
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February 18 - Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople
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404 - Events.
January 1 - Last gladiator competition in Rome.
John Chrysostom is deposed, and Atticus of Constantinople becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
Saint Telemachus matyrdom.
Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo invades Liaodong and takes the entire Liaodong Peninsula.
404 - Births.
404 - Deaths.
Claudian, poet
February - Flavian I of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch
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February 20 - Epiphanius elected Patriarch of Constantinople.
Ostrogothic ruler Theodoric the Great builds the Mausoleum of Theodoric as his future tomb in Ravenna.
The kingdom of East Anglia is formed (approximate date).
Bodhidharma arrives in China.
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January 19 - John of Cappadocia, Patriarch of Constantinople
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370 - Events.
Basil of Caesarea becomes bishop of Caesarea.
Demophilus of Constantinople becomes Patriarch of Constantinople, although his position is disputed by Evagrius of Constantinople.
John Chrysostom is baptized.
Former Qin conquers Former Yan in China.
370 - Births.
Alaric, King of the Visigoths.
370 - Deaths.
Lucifer Calaritanus, founder of the Luciferian sect.
Eudox ...
Alternate meanings: 154 (number) or 154 (album)
154 - Events.
Anicetus becomes pope (approximate date)
Anicetus meets with Polycarp of Smyrna to discuss the Computus.
Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Euzois to Patriarch Laurence
Last (2nd) year of Yongxing era of the Chinese Han Dynasty
154 - Births.
154 - Deaths.
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Construction of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in Rome.
Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Felix to Patriarch Polycarpus II.
Last (6th) year of Yonghe era of the Chinese Han Dynasty
141 - Births.
141 - Deaths.
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144 - Events.
Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Polycarpus II to Patriarch Athendodorus
Change of era name from Hanan (3rd year) to Jiankang era of the Chinese Han Dynasty
Change of emperor from Han Shundi to Han Chongdi of the Chinese Han Dynasty
Marcion of Sinope is excommunicated; a sect (Marcionism) grows out of his beliefs.
Construction of the Antonine Wall is completed.
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