Photios I of Constantinople (Person) AKA Saint Photios the Great, Photius, Fotios
Photios I of Constantinople
810 AD - 893 AD
AKA Saint Photios the Great, Photius, Fotios
Ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople 858 — 867 and 877 — 886
Widely regarded as the most powerful and influential church leader of Constantinople since John Chrysostom
The central Photian schism a four-year (863–867) schism between the episcopal sees of Rome and Constantinople concerning the right of the Byzantine Emperor to depose and appoint a patriarch without approval from the papacy.
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840 AD
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