Peter of Constantinople | |
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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople | |
Installed | 654 |
Term ended | 666 |
Personal details | |
Denomination | Chalcedonian Christianity |
Peter (Greek: Πέτρος; died October 666) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 654 to 666. He was condemned as a heretic in the Third Council of Constantinople. He was succeeded as ecumenical patriarch by Thomas II of Constantinople.
Peter succeeded Patr. Pyrrhus who also was a Monothelite. In correspondence with Pope Vitalian of Rome following Vitalian's ascension to the see of Rome, 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 Pope Honorius I, who died in 638, and 677 when Patriarch Theodore I removed the pope's name prior to the Sixth Ecumenical Council. At the council Peter was condemned as a heretic along with Patriarchs Sergius I, Pyrrhus I and Paul II all of Constantinople, Patriarch Cyrus of Alexandria, and Theodore of Pharan.
References
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Third Council of Constantinople" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- "Ecumenical Patriarch".
Titles of Chalcedonian Christianity | ||
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Preceded byPyrrhus | Patriarch of Constantinople 654–666 |
Succeeded byThomas II |
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