Photios the Great

Φώτιος (Known as "Saint Photios")

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Born c. 815 CE

Constantinople, Byzantine Empire

Passed Away Feb 06, 0893 Bordi Monastery, Armenia

Lifespan 78 years old

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"Truth is the sweetest of all things; it endures when everything else passes away."

Archival Overview

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and towering polymath whose 'Bibliotheca' saved classical antiquity and who defended Eastern pneumatology against the Filioque.

Biographical Record

Photios the Great (c. 815–893 CE) was the most erudite scholar of ninth-century Byzantium, elevated from lay statesman to Patriarch of Constantinople in 858.

He dispatched Saints Cyril and Methodius to evangelize the Slavic nations and authored the Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit, affirming the Father as the sole source in the Trinity.

Key Life Milestones

862

Mission to the Slavic Peoples

Commissioned Cyril and Methodius to translate scriptures and liturgy into Old Church Slavonic.

879

Council of Constantinople (879–880)

Presided over the Council that restored communion with Rome and confirmed the Nicene Creed without additions.

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Final Resting Place

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Monastery of the Holy Apostles
Constantinople, Turkey

                         GPS: 41.0186, 28.9500                    

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