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Theophylact of Constantinople

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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 933 to 956

Theophylact of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
The baptism of Hungarian chieftainBulcsú, performed by Theophylact in 948 (Madrid Skylitzes)
See	Constantinople
Installed	2 February 933
Term ended	27 February 956
Predecessor	Tryphon of Constantinople
Successor	Polyeuctus of Constantinople
Personal details
Born	Theophylact Lekapenos 917 Constantinople
Died	27 February 956
Denomination	Chalcedonian Christianity

Theophylact Lekapenos (Greek:Θεοφύλακτος Λεκαπηνός; 917 – 27 February 956) wasEcumenical Patriarch of Constantinople^[1]^[2]^[3] from 2 February 933 to his death in 956.

Theophylact was the youngest son of EmperorRomanos I Lekapenos and his wifeTheodora. Romanos I planned to make his son patriarch as soon as PatriarchNicholas I died in 925, but two minor patriarchates and a two-year vacancy passed before Theophylact was considered old enough to discharge his duties as patriarch (as he was still only sixteen years old). At this time, or before, he was castrated to help his career in the church^{[citation needed]}. Theophylact was the third patriarch of Constantinople to be the son of an emperor and the only one to have become patriarch during the reign of his father. His patriarchate of just over twenty-three years was unusually long, and his father had secured the support ofPope John XI for his elevation to the patriarchate. Apart from the bastardeunuch Basil Lekapenos, who was appointedparakoimomenos, Theophylact was the only son of Romanos I to retain his high office after the family's fall from power in 945.

Theophylact supported his father's policies and pursued ecclesiasticalecumenicism, keeping in close contact with the Greek patriarchates ofAlexandria andAntioch. He sent missionaries to theMagyars, trying to help the efforts of imperial diplomacy in the late 940s. At about the same time, Theophylact advised his nephew-in-law EmperorPeter I of Bulgaria on the newBogomil heresy. Theophylact introduced theatrical elements to the Byzantine liturgy, something which was not universally supported by the conservative clergy around him.

Theophylact's detractors describe him as an irreverent man primarily interested in his huge stable of horses, who was ready to abandon the celebration of Divine Liturgy in theHagia Sophia to be present at the foaling of his favorite mare. Theophylact died afterfalling from a horse in 956.

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^Catherine Cubitt (2003),Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages - The Proceedings of the First Alcuin Conference, University of York, Centre for Medieval Studies.
^Catherine Holmes (2005),Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976–1025), Oxford University Press.
^Kazhdan, Alexander (1991)."Theophylaktos". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.).Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. p. 2068.ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.

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Kiminas, Demetrius (2009).The Ecumenical Patriarchate - A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs.Wildside Press.ISBN 9781434458766.
Madgearu, Alexandru (2008)."The Mission of Hierotheos - Location and Significance".Byzantinoslavica.66:119–138.
Madgearu, Alexandru (2017)."Further Considerations on Hierotheos' Mission to the Magyars".Acta Musei Napocensis.54 (2):1–16.

Titles of Chalcedonian Christianity
Preceded by Tryphon	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 933 – 956	Succeeded by Polyeuctus

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