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33-474: Patriarch Eutychius may refer to: Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople (512–582), Patriarch of Constantinople and saint Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria (877–940), Greek Patriarch of Alexandria and historian Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Patriarch Eutychius . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
66-521: A Chalcedonian creed, was firmly opposed to Nestorianism as supported by the Antiochene school which had either assisted Nestorius , the eponymous heresiarch , or had inspired the teaching for which he was anathematized and exiled. The council also condemned the teaching that Mary could not be rightly called the Mother of God ( Greek : Theotokos ) but only the mother of the man ( anthropotokos ) or
99-653: A saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions, was the patriarch of Constantinople from 552 to 565, and from 577 to 582. His feast is kept by the Orthodox Church on 6 April, and he is mentioned in the Catholic Church's " Corpus Juris ". His terms of office, occurring during the reign of Emperor Justinian the Great , were marked by controversies with both imperial and papal authority. Eutychius' career
132-447: A short time prior) the churches never accepted the council; when news of the later Third Council of Constantinople was communicated to them by Rome it was received as the fifth ecumenical council, not the sixth. Isidore of Seville , in his Chronicle and De Viris Illustribus , judged Justinian a tyrant and persecutor of the orthodox and an admirer of heresy, contrasting him with Facundus of Hermiane and Victor of Tunnuna , who
165-588: Is well documented: a full biography, composed by his chaplain Eustathius of Constantinople, was preserved intact. Eutychius was born at Theium in Phrygia . His father, Alexander, was a general under the famous Byzantine commander Belisarius . Eutychius became a monk at Amasea at the age of 30. As an archimandrite at Constantinople , Eutychius was well respected by Menas , the Patriarch of Constantinople . Eventually, on
198-879: The Melkite Chronicle of 641. Also, one of the Acts of the Council at Constantinople, were the Anathemas issued against those who rejected the Perpetual Virginity of Mary . Justinian hoped that this would contribute to a reunion between the Chalcedonians and non-Chalcedonians in the eastern provinces of the Empire. Various attempts at reconciliation between these parties within the Byzantine Empire were made by many emperors over
231-698: The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church . It is also recognized by the Old Catholics and others. Protestant opinions and recognition of it are varied. Some Protestants, such as Calvinists , recognize the first four councils, whereas Lutherans and most Anglo-Catholics accept all seven. Constantinople II was convoked by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I under the presidency of Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople . It
264-475: The Council. In spite of the Pope's refusal, the council met on 5 May 553 at Constantinople, and Eutychius shared the first place in the assembly with Apollinarius of Alexandria and Domninus of Antioch (called " Domnus III ", see List of Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch ). At the second session, the pope excused himself again on the grounds of ill health. The subscription of Eutychius to the Acts of this synod, which
297-569: The Great , then residing at Constantinople as Apocrisiarius , opposed this opinion, citing Luke 24:39. Emperor Tiberius talked to the disputants separately, and tried to reconcile them, but the breach was persistent. Eutychius died quietly on the Sunday after Easter , at the age of 70. Some of his friends later told Pope Gregory that a few minutes before his death he touched the skin of his hand and said, "I confess that in this flesh we shall rise again", (a rough quote of Job 19:26). Among his pupils
330-521: The Three Chapters, claiming that his hesitation was due to being misled by his advisors. His approval of the council was expressed in two documents, (a letter to Eutychius of Constantinople on 8 December 553, and a second "Constitutum" of 23 February 554, probably addressed to the Western episcopate), condemning the Three Chapters, on his own authority and without mention of the council. In Northern Italy
363-549: The city on an ass's colt, over garments spread on the ground, the crowd carrying palms, dancing, and singing. The whole city was illuminated, public banquets were held, and new buildings were inaugurated. The next day he met with the two emperors and was given "conspicuous honor" at the Church of the Virgin in Blachernae . He then proceeded to Hagia Sophia , mounted the pulpit, and blessed
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#1732851738195396-661: The day Menas died, Eutychius was nominated by Justinian the Great as Patriarch. Pope Vigilius was in Constantinople when Eutychius became patriarch. Eutychius sent him the usual announcement of his own appointment and a completely orthodox profession of the then-united Church. At the same time, the Pope urged him to summon and preside over the Church Council summoned to deal with the Three-Chapter Controversy . Vigilius first gave, and then withdrew, his consent to
429-650: The divine, in one person. The 'two natures' defined at Chalcedon were now clearly interpreted as two sets of attributes possessed by a single person, Christ God, the Second Person of the Trinity. Later Byzantine Christology, as found in Maximus the Confessor and John of Damascus , was built upon this basis. It might have proved sufficient, moreover, to bring about the reunion of Chalcedonians and non-Chalcedonians, had it not been for
462-584: The ecclesiastical provinces of Milan and Aquileia broke communion with Rome . Milan accepted the condemnation only toward the end of the sixth century, whereas Aquileia did not do so until about 700. The rest of the Western Church accepted the decrees of the council, though without great enthusiasm. Though ranked as one of the ecumenical councils, it never attained in the West the status of either Nicaea or Chalcedon. In Visigothic Spain ( Reccared having converted
495-503: The emergent semi-monophysite compromises of monoenergism and monotheletism . These propositions assert, respectively, that Christ possessed no human energy but only a divine function or principle of operation (purposefully formulated in an equivocal and vague manner, and promulgated between 610 and 622 by the Emperor Heraclius under the advice of Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople ) and that Christ possessed no human will but only
528-418: The four centuries following the Council of Ephesus, none of them successful. Some attempts at reconciliation, such as this one, the condemnation of the Three Chapters and the unprecedented posthumous anathematization of Theodore—who had once been widely esteemed as a pillar of orthodoxy—causing further schisms and heresies to arise in the process, such as the aforementioned schism of the Three Chapters and
561-526: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patriarch_Eutychius&oldid=1210942082 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Title and name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople Eutychius ( Greek : Εὐτύχιος , Eutychios ; c. 512 – 5 April 582), considered
594-439: The many people. It took him six hours to distribute the communion because all of the people wished to receive it from his own hands. Toward the end of his life, Eutychius maintained an opinion that after the resurrection the body will be "more subtle than air" and no longer a tangible thing. This was considered heretical, because it was taken as a denial of the doctrine of physical, corporeal resurrection. The future Pope Gregory
627-585: The mother of Christ ( Christotokos ). The Second Council of Constantinople is also considered as one of the many attempts by Byzantine Emperors to bring peace in the empire between the Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian factions of the church which had been in continuous conflict since the times of the Council of Ephesus in AD 431. The council was presided over by Eutychius , Patriarch of Constantinople , assisted by
660-460: The original Acts of the Fifth Council had been tampered with in favour of Monothelitism . It used to be argued that the extant acts are incomplete, since they make no mention of the debate over Origenism. However, the solution generally accepted today is that the bishops signed the canons condemning Origenism before the council formally opened. This condemnation was confirmed by Pope Vigilius and
693-553: The other three eastern patriarchs or their representatives. Pope Vigilius was also invited; but even though he was at this period resident in Constantinople (to avoid the perils of life in Italy, convulsed by the war against the Ostrogoths), he declined to attend, and even issued a document forbidding the council from proceeding without him (his 'First Constitutum'). For more details see Pope Vigilius . The council, however, proceeded without
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#1732851738195726-519: The person of Theodore of Mopsuestia (died 428), certain writings against Cyril of Alexandria 's Twelve Anathemas accepted at the Council of Ephesus , written by Theodoret of Cyrrhus (died c. 466 ), and a letter written against Cyrillianism and the Ephesian Council by Ibas of Edessa (died 457). The purpose of the condemnation was to make plain that the Great Church, which followed
759-502: The pope to condemn the Three Chapters. And during the seventh session of the council, the bishops had Vigilius stricken from the diptychs for his refusal to appear at the council and approve its proceedings, effectively excommunicating him personally but not the rest of the Western Church. Vigilius was then imprisoned in Constantinople by the emperor and his advisors were exiled. After six months, in December 553, he agreed, however, to condemn
792-472: The severance of connections between the two groups that resulted from the Muslim conquests of the next century. The original Greek acts of the council are lost, but an old Latin version exists, possibly made for Vigilius, of which there is a critical edition and of which there is now an English translation and commentary, and a modern Greek translation and commentary. It has been alleged (probably falsely) that
825-457: The subsequent ecumenical council (Third Council of Constantinople) gave its "assent" in its Definition of Faith to the five previous synods, including "... the last, that is the Fifth holy Synod assembled in this place, against Theodore of Mopsuestia, Origen, Didymus, and Evagrius ..."; its full conciliar authority has only been questioned in modern times. There is a Syriac account of the council in
858-550: The tenets of the Aphthartodocetae , a sect of Non-Chalcedonians who believed that Christ 's body on earth was incorruptible ( ’aphthorá ) and subject to no pain. Eutychius, in a long address, argued the incompatibility of the Aphthartodocetic beliefs with Scripture. Emperor Justinian insisted that he subscribe to it anyway. When Eutychius refused to compromise, Justinian ordered his arrest. On 22 January 565, Eutychius
891-446: Was Eustratios of Constantinople who wrote a tract against soul sleep . His literary remains are: Second Council of Constantinople Autocephaly and canonicity recognized by Constantinople and 3 other autocephalous Churches: Spiritual independence recognized by Georgian Orthodox Church: Semi-Autonomous: The Second Council of Constantinople is the fifth of the first seven ecumenical councils recognized by both
924-553: Was made Caesar in 574. In October 577 the two emperors sent a delegation to Amasea to bring Eutychius back to Constantinople. Contemporary reports claim that as he entered the city, a large group of people met him, shouting aloud, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord," and "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace". In imitation of the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem (recorded in Matthew 21:1–11 and John 12:12–18), he entered
957-787: Was celebrating the feast day of Saint Timothy in the church adjoining the Hormisdas Palace when soldiers broke into the patriarchal residence, entered the church, and carried him away. Eutychius was first removed to a monastery called Choracudis, and the next day to the monastery of St. Osias near Chalcedon . Eight days later Justinian called an assembly of princes and prelates, to which he summoned Eutychius. The charges against him were trivial: that he used ointments, ate "delicate meats", and prayed for long periods. After being summoned three times, Eutychius replied that he would only come if he were to be judged canonically, in his own dignity, and in command of his clergy. Condemned by default, he
990-408: Was considered a martyr. Despite the conflict between the council and the pope, and the inability to reconcile Chalcedonians and non-Chalcedonians, the council still made a significant theological contribution. The canons condemning the Three Chapters were preceded by ten dogmatic canons which defined Chalcedonian Christology with a new precision, bringing out that Christ has two natures, the human and
1023-600: Was held from 5 May to 2 June 553. Participants were overwhelmingly Eastern bishops —only sixteen Western bishops were present, including nine from Illyricum and seven from Africa, but none from Italy—out of the 152 total. The main work of the council was to confirm the condemnation issued by edict in 551 by the Emperor Justinian against the Three Chapters . These were the Christological writings and ultimately
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1056-527: Was later recognized as the Fifth General Council and which concluded on 2 June 553, is a summary of the decrees against the Three Chapters. Eutychius had, so far, stood by the Emperor throughout. He composed the decree of the Council against The Chapters. In 562, he consecrated the new church of Hagia Sophia . However, Eutychius came into violent collision with Justinian in 564, when the Emperor adopted
1089-512: Was sent to an island in the Propontis named Principus ("Prince's Island"), and later to his old monastery at Amasea , where he spent 12 years and 5 months. Upon the death of John Scholasticus , whom Justinian had put in the patriarchal chair, the people of Constantinople demanded the return of Eutychius. Justin II had succeeded Justinian in 565 and had associated with himself the young Tiberius , who
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