Kyros or Cyrus ( grc-gre, Κῦρος; died 8 January 712) was the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople ( Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of ...
from 705 to 712. He is regarded as a
saint in the
Eastern Orthodox Church
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and
Roman Catholic Church
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, which had set his feast for January 7 in Roman Catholic Church and January 8 (21) in Orthodox Church. Cyrus was placed on the patriarchal throne in 705 by Emperor
Justinian II
Justinian II ( la, Iustinianus; gr, Ἰουστινιανός, Ioustinianós; 668/69 – 4 November 711), nicknamed "the Slit-Nosed" ( la, Rhinotmetus; gr, ὁ Ῥινότμητος, ho Rhinótmētos), was the last Eastern Roman emperor of the ...
, as a replacement for the deposed Patriarch
Callinicus I. Soon after Justinian's decline and eventual fall in December 711, Kyros was replaced by the new Emperor
Philippicus
Philippicus ( la, Filepicus; el, Φιλιππικός, Philippikós) was Byzantine emperor from 711 to 713. He took power in a coup against the unpopular emperor Justinian II, and was deposed in a similarly violent manner nineteen months later. ...
with Patriarch
John VI, who shared Philippicus'
Monothelite sympathies.
See also
*
Eastern Orthodoxy
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Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") ...
Notes
References
*''The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
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'', Oxford University Press, 1991.
External links
Santiebeati:Kyros of Constantinople
Saints from Constantinople
8th-century patriarchs of Constantinople
8th-century Christian saints
Twenty Years' Anarchy
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