saint
St Photios the Great
Φώτιος ὁ Μέγας
Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 810–893), one of the foremost Byzantine theologians and the central figure in the Photian schism with Rome. Feast day 6 February.
Mentioned in 3 passages.
(1), a sophist at Constantinople, an intimate friend of St. Gregory Nazianzen, who in 382 or $83 addressed him in his Zp. 168 al. 91-(ef. Tillem. ix. 544). [c. H.J
(2), priest at Constantinople, and friend of Nestorius, was employed by the latter in the year 429, to reply to St. Cyril of Alexandria's letter to the Egyptian monks, warning them against Nestorius's teaching (Mansi, iv. 1003; Cyril, Zpp. 8); in the preceding year he had concurred with Anastasius, another Nestorian priest [ANasrastus, bishop of Tenedos], in sending two priests, Anthony and James, to Philadelphia in Lydia for the promotion of Nestorianism, as complained of by Chari- sius at the Ephesme council in 431 (Migne, Pat. Lat. t. xlviii. 727, Praef. ii. Opp. Marii_ Mercatoris) [CuaRtsrus (1)]. When Nestorius was panished by imperial decree A.D. 432, Photius was inoluded in the sentence and sent to Petra, but it is not known what became of him. His letter to the monks against St. Cyril is lost.
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