Paul I of Constantinople
Bishop of Constantinople
d. 350
28th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Paul I of Constantinople or Saint Paul the Confessor, was the sixth bishop of Constantinople, elected first in 337. Paul I became involved in the Arian controversy which drew in the Emperor of the West, Constans, and his counterpart in the East, his brother Roman emperor Constantius II. Paul I was installed and deposed three times from the See of Constantinople between 337 and 350. He was murdered by strangulation during his third and final exile in Cappadocia. His feast day is on 6 November.
Related people
- Alexander of Constantinople ordained by · traditional
- Alexander of Constantinople succeeded · inferred
- Eusebius of Nicomedia preceded · inferred
Commemorated
Places
- Göksun district death
- Thessalonica birth
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani