Kyros of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 705 to 712
78th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Kyros of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 705 to 711. He is regarded as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Church, which had set his feast for 7 January in Catholic Church and 8 January (21) in Orthodox Church. Kyros was placed on the patriarchal throne in 705 by Emperor Justinian II, as a replacement for the deposed Patriarch Callinicus I of Constantinople. Soon after Justinian II's decline and eventual fall in December 711, Kyros was replaced by the new Emperor Philippicus with Patriarch John VI of Constantinople, who shared Philippicus' Monothelite sympathies.
Related people
- Callinicus I of Constantinople succeeded · inferred
- John VI of Constantinople preceded · inferred
Commemorated
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani