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Paul IV of Constantinople

Patriarch of Constantinople

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Feast: 30 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
unknown
Died
784
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Paul IV of Constantinople, known as Paul the New (Greek: Παῦλος; died December 784), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 780 to 784. He had once opposed the veneration of icons but urged the calling of an ecumenical council to address the iconoclast controversy. Later, he resigned and retired to a monastery due to old age and illness. He was succeeded by Tarasios of Constantinople, who was a lay administrator at the time.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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Sources

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