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The Patriarch Photios sitting on a throne by John Skylitzes
Photios I
was born c. 810 or 820 in
Constantinople
and died 891 in Bordi (
Armenia
). He was the
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
from 858 to 867 and from 877 to 886. In the
Eastern Orthodox churches
he is called
St. Photios the Great
. Photios a
powerful
and
influential
Patriarch
of
Constantinople
. As a scholar, Photios possessed a tremendous knowledge of
Greek literature
.
[1]
He was a leading
intellectual
of his time, "the leading light of the ninth-century renaissance".
[2]
[3]
He was a central figure in both the
religious conversion
of the
Slavs
to
Christianity
and the
Photian schism
.
[4]
- ↑
Vasilios Makrides,
Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches: A Concise History of the Religious Cultures of Greece from Antiquity to the Present
(New York: New York University Press, 2009), p. 164
- ↑
Andrew Louth,
Greek East and Latin West: The Church, AD 681-1071
(New York: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2007), p. 159
- ↑
Cyril A. Mango,
Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome
(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980), p. 168
- ↑
Warren T.Treadgold, 'Review: Patriarch Photios of Constantinople: His Life, Scholarly Contributions, and Correspondence together with a Translation of Fifty-Two of His Letters by Despina Stratoudaki White; The Patriarch and the Prince: The Letter of Patriarch Photios of Constantinople to Khan Boris of Bulgaria by Despina Stratoudaki White; Joseph R. Berrigan Jr.".
Speculum
(Medieval Academy of America) Vol 58, No. 4 (October 1983), pp. 1100?1102. JSTOR 2853829
