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Polyeuctus of Constantinople

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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 956 to 970

Polyeuctus of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Consecration of Polyeuctus, from theMadrid Skylitzes
See	Constantinople
Installed	3 April 956
Term ended	5 February 970
Predecessor	Theophylact of Constantinople
Successor	Basil I of Constantinople
Personal details
Died	5 February 970
Denomination	Chalcedonian Christianity

Polyeuctus of Constantinople (Greek:Πολύευκτος; died 5 February 970) wasEcumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (956–970).^[1] His orthodox feast is on 5 February.

History

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Polyeuctus was raised from being a simple monk to the Patriarchate in 956, as successor to the imperial princeTheophylact Lekapenos, and remained on the patriarchal throne in Constantinople until his death on 5 February 970. For his great mind, zeal for the Faith and power of oratory, he was called a "secondChrysostom".

Although he was given his position byConstantine VII, he did not show much loyalty to him. He began by questioning the legitimacy of Constantine's parents' marriage and then went as far as to restore the good name ofPatriarch Euthymius I who had so vigorously opposed that union.^[2]

The Russian PrincessSaint Olga came to Constantinople in the time of Patriarch Polyeuctus during the reign of Byzantine EmperorConstantine VII and was baptised there in 957. The Patriarch baptised her, and the Emperor stood godfather.St Polyeuctus prophesied: "Blessed are you among Russian women, for you have loved light and cast off darkness; the sons of Russia will bless you to the last generation."^[3]

He raised bishop Petrus ofOtranto (958) to the dignity ofmetropolitan, with the obligation to establish the Greek Rite throughout the province; the Latin Rite was introduced again after the Norman conquest, but the Greek Rite remained in use in several towns of the archdiocese and of its suffragans, until the 16th century.^[4]

Although he had supported his rise to the throne, against the machinations ofJoseph Bringas, Polyeuctusexcommunicated EmperorNikephoros II Phokas for having marriedTheophano on the grounds that he had been the godfather to one or more of her sons. He had previously refused Nikephorascommunion for a whole year for the sin of having contracted a second marriage after the death of his first wife.

He excommunicated the assassins of the Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas and refused to crown the new EmperorJohn I Tzimiskes, nephew of the late Emperor (and one of the assassins) until he punished the assassins andexiled his lover Empress Theophano who allegedly organised her husband's assassination.

Notes and references

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^Warren Treadgold (1997),A History of the Byzantine State and Society,Stanford University Press.
^Norwich, John Julius;Byzantium, The Apogee, (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), p. 173.
^Velimirovich, Bishop Nikolai (1926).The Prologue From Ohrid. p. 78.
^Benigni, Umberto (1911)."Otranto".

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Neobyzantine church - liturgical calendar

Titles of Chalcedonian Christianity
Preceded by Theophylact	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 956 – 970	Succeeded by Basil I

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Patriarchs of Constantinople (Turkish period, since 1923 AD)	Gregory VII Constantine VI Basil III Photius II Benjamin Maximus V Athenagoras Demetrius Bartholomew
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