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Saint Gennadius I of Constantinople

Byzantine theologian
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471, Constantinople

Saint Gennadius I of Constantinople (died 471, Constantinople; feast day August 25) was a Byzantine theologian, biblical exegete, and patriarch. He was a champion of Christian Orthodoxy who strove for an ecumenical (Greek: “universal”) statement of doctrine on the person and work of Christ to reconcile the opposing Alexandrian (Egyptian) and Antiochene (Syrian) theological traditions. Abbot of a monastery in Constantinople, Gennadius became patriarch in 458 and, with the counsel of Pope Leo I (440–461), proceeded against the Monophysites (q.v.) and deposed their titular head, Bishop Timotheus Aelurus of Alexandria. To counter any Monophysite interpretation of the dogmas promulgated at ...(100 of 243 words)

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