Germanus I of Constantinople
Patriarch of Constantinople
b. 634 · d. 733
80th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) · 715–730
Offices
- Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch) № 80 · 715 – 730
Germanus I of Constantinople was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 715 to 730. He is regarded as a saint by both the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, with a feast day of 12 May. He had been ecumenically preceded by Patriarch John VI of Constantinople, and was succeeded in Orthodox Rite by Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople.
Related people
- John VI of Constantinople succeeded · traditional
- Anastasius of Constantinople preceded · inferred
Works
Events
- First Iconoclasm 726
Commemorated
Places
- Constantinople death
- Istanbul death
- Chora Church burial
- Byzantine Empire ministry
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Chronographia 1 claim — First Iconoclasm
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani
What he held
- Icons may be venerated Images of Christ, the Mother of God and the saints are to be set up and given honourable reverence, the honour paid to the image passing to its prototype.
In the disputes
- Iconoclasm Whether Christ may be depicted, argued from Chalcedon by both sides: Hieria held that the two natures cannot be painted, since one cannot be circumscribed and the other cannot be shown alone; Nicaea II answered on the same ground and reached the opposite conclusion.