Peter of Constantinople (

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: Πέτρος; died 12 October 666) was the

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople () is the List of ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople, archbishop of Constantinople and (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches that comprise the Eastern Orthodox ...

from 9 June 654 to 666. He was condemned as a heretic in the

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. He was succeeded as ecumenical patriarch by Thomas II of Constantinople. Peter succeeded patriarch Pyrrhus who also was a Monothelite. In correspondence with

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of Rome following Vitalian's ascension to the

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, Peter was noncommittal concerning Monothelitism, leading to a restoration of ecclesiastical intercourse between Rome and Constantinople. This resulted the addition of Vitalian's name on the diptychs of the church in Constantinople – the only name of a pope so entered between the reign of

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, who died in 638, and 677 when Patriarch

Theodore I of Constantinople Theodore I of Constantinople (Greek: Θεόδωρος; died 28 December 687) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople The ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople () is the List of ecumenical patriarchs of Constantinople, archbishop of C ...

removed the pope's name prior to the Third Council of Constantinople. At the council Peter was condemned as a heretic along with Patriarchs Sergius I, Pyrrhus and Paul II all of Constantinople, Patriarch

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, and Theodore of Raithu.

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