Photios I of Constantinople
9th Century Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Feast: 6 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Photios I of Constantinople (; also spelled Photius; Greek: Φώτιος, romanized: Phōtios; c. 815 – 6 February 893) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 867 and from 877 to 886. He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as 'Saint Photius the Great'.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Arethas of Caesarea Saint Pupil
- Hippolytus Saint“Photios I of Constantinople describes him in his Bibliotheca (cod.” — Wikipedia
- John Chrysostom Saint“Photios I is widely regarded as the most powerful and influential church leader of Constantinople subsequent to John Chrysostom's archbishopric around the turn of the fifth century.” — Wikipedia
- Wikidata Q243187 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Photios I of Constantinople (CC BY-SA)
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