John VIII of Constantinople

patriarch of Constantinople (1010-1075)

b. 1005 · d. 2 Aug 1075

113th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)

John VIII of Constantinople, a native of Trebizond, was a Byzantine intellectual, jurist, and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1064 to 1075. He was the uncle of John Xiphilinus, the Epimator. He is considered "an innovator in the field of the methodology of jurisprudential research".

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