The Council of Constantinople or Council of Blachernae was an

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council, convened in 1285 in the

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. Under the presidency of the

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, Gregory II, the

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Athanasius III, and Emperor

Andronicus II Palaeologus Andronikos II Palaiologos (; 25 March 1259 – 13 February 1332), Latinized as Andronicus II Palaeologus, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 1282 to 1328. His reign marked the beginning of the recently restored empire's final decline. ...

, the council repudiated the Union of the Churches under the Council of Lyons (1274), and condemned the pro-Unionist patriarch John XI Beccus.

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