Menas of Constantinople

Who they were

Menas was consecrated Patriarch of Constantinople by Pope St Agapetus in 536, after the deposition of Anthimus, whom he then excommunicated at a synod.

In the Three Chapters dispute he broke with Pope Vigilius but later made his peace, asking pardon. He died in August 552.

The miracles

The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe how he came to be honoured as a saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

A patriarch consecrated by the Pope.

Connected on this site

• Agapetus I Saint
  “While in Constantinople, Agapetus also deposed the patriarch Anthimus I and personally consecrated his successor who is Menas of Constantinople.” — Wikipedia
• Sampson the Hospitable Saint
  “Menas was born in Alexandria, and enters the records in high ecclesiastical office as presbyter and director of the Hospital of Sampson in Constantinople, where tradition has him linked to saint Sampson the Hospitable directly, and in the healing of Byzantine emperor Justinian I from the bubonic plague in 542.” — Wikipedia