Maximus I of Constantinople
archbishop of Constantinople in 380
b. 4th century
38th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) · 380–380
Offices
- Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) № 38 · 380 – 380
Maximus I of Constantinople, also known as Maximus the Cynic, was the intrusive archbishop of Constantinople in 380, where he became a rival of Gregory of Nazianzus.
Related people
- Gregory of Nazianzus succeeded · traditional
- Nectarius of Constantinople preceded · inferred
Places
- Alexandria 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