Photios meaning

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 867 and 877 to 886

"Photios" redirects here. For other people with the name, see Photios (name).

Photius I of Constantinople (Greek: Φώτιος, Phōtios; c.

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815 – 6 February 893),^[a] also spelled Photius^[2] (), was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 867 and from 877 to 886.^[3] He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Saint Photius the Great.

Photius is widely regarded as the most powerful and influential church leader of Constantinople subsequent to John Chrysostom's archbishopric around the turn of the fifth century.

He is also viewed as the most important intellectual of his time – "the leading light of the ninth-century renaissance".^[4] He was a central figure in both the conversion of the Slavs to Christianity and the Photian schism,^[5] and is considered "[t]he great systematic compiler of the Eastern Church, wh