Eutychius of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
b. c. 512 · d. 5 Apr 582
59th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Eutychius of Constantinople, considered a saint in the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions, was the patriarch of Constantinople from 552 to 565 and from 577 to 582. His feast is kept by the Orthodox Church on 6 April, and he is mentioned in the Catholic Church's "Corpus Juris". His terms of office, occurring during the reign of Emperor Justinian I, were marked by controversies with both imperial and papal authority.
Related people
- Menas of Constantinople succeeded · inferred
- John Scholasticus preceded · inferred
Events
Commemorated
Places
- Phrygia birth
- Constantinople death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) 1 claim — Second Council of Constantinople
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani