Photios Gives Thanks to Christ and Pope John

¹ Photios, the most holy patriarch, said: We send up thanks to Christ our true God, the first and great hierarch; and indeed also to the most holy pope John, who has ⟦stood firm⟧ against every schismatic ⟦delusion⟧, ⟦embracing⟧ all concord of the Churches, and removing the rod of sinners from the lot of the righteous.