Photios I of Constantinople
9th Century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
b. c. 827 · d. 9th century
92nd Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) · 858–867 · Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) · 877–886
Offices
- Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) № 92 · 858 – 867
- Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) 877 – 886
Photios I of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 867 and from 877 to 886. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as 'Saint Photius the Great'.
Related people
- Irene child of · traditional
- Sergios child of · traditional
- Ignatius of Constantinople succeeded · traditional
- Arethas of Caesarea teacher of · traditional
- Stephen I of Constantinople preceded · traditional
- Ignatius of Constantinople preceded · traditional
Works
Works in parts
- Bibliotheca 275 parts
Events
Commemorated
Places
- Constantinople birth
- Armenia death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Encyclical to the Eastern Patriarchs 1 claim — First baptism of the Rus'
- The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire 5 claims — Council of Constantinople (861); Photian Schism; Baptism of Boris of Bulgaria
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 2 claims — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani
Documents
- Bibliotheca author
What he held
- The Filioque The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
In the disputes
- The Filioque dispute One word added to the creed in Spain against Arianism, carried north with the Frankish liturgy, refused at Rome for two centuries and sung there from 1014.
- The Photian schism A disputed succession at Constantinople became a quarrel about who may judge it, and then about the creed and the mission to Bulgaria.