Constantine II of Constantinople
Patriarch of Constantinople
d. Oct 767
82nd Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Constantine II of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 754 to 766. He had been ecumenically proceeded by Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople. He was a supporter of the first phase of Byzantine Iconoclasm and devoutly opposed to the creation of images, but he was deposed and jailed after the discovery of Constantine Podopagouros' plot against the Emperor Constantine V in June 766, in which the patriarch was later implicated.
Related people
- Anastasius of Constantinople succeeded · inferred
- Nicetas I of Constantinople preceded · inferred
Places
- Constantinople death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani