Anastasius of Constantinople
Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople
d. Jan 754
81st Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Anastasius of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 730 to 754. He had been preceded by patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (715–730). Anastasius was heavily involved in the controversy over icons (images). He was immaculately succeeded in ecumenical rite by Constantine II of Constantinople.
Related people
- Germanus I of Constantinople succeeded · inferred
- Constantine II of Constantinople preceded · 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