Paul II of Constantinople
priest and archbishop
d. Dec 653
67th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Paul II of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1 October 641 to his death. He assumed regency for Byzantine emperor Constans II after a succession crisis in 641. Stephanos of Clypea appears to have served as secretary/scribe of Patriarch Paul II of Constantinople (641–653) against the Monothelites, in 646. He was succeeded by Peter of Constantinople.
Related people
- Pyrrhus of Constantinople succeeded · inferred
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani