Photios I of Constantinople

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Photios I of Constantinople was a 9th-century Byzantine scholar and Patriarch whose controversial appointment and theological positions sparked the Photian Schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.


Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Fourth Council of Constantinople ("Photius I deposed and excommunicated")
declared
Christianization of Bulgaria ("Byzantine Patriarch Photios I")
keyFigure
Photian Schism
namedAfter
Photian Schism
participant
Michael I Cerularius ("Alexius I Studites")
predecessor

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