Ecumenical Patriarch Kyros of Constantinople

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Kyros or Cyrus (Greek: Κύρος), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 705 to 712. He is regarded as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, which had set his feast for January 7. Cyrus was placed on the patriarchal throne in 705 by Emperor Justinian II, as a replacement for the deposed Patriarch Callinicus I. Soon after Justinian's fall in December 711, Kyros was replaced by the new Emperor Philippicus with Patriarch John VI, who shared Philippicus' Monothelite sympathies.

[edit] See also

• Eastern Orthodoxy

[edit] References

• The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.

Preceded by Callinicus I

Patriarch of Constantinople 706–712

Succeeded by John VI