Saints who resisted heresy
St Joseph I of Constantinople
Ἅγιος Ἰωσὴφ Α΄ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως
Opposed the imposed Union of Lyons (1274), declined to accept the union settlement, and lost his throne. The book discusses the synodal anti-union testimony connected with him on printed p. 212.
- Period
- †1283
- Witness
- Patriarch of Constantinople, confessor
- Controversy
- Filioque and Church union
Witness under persecution
What this saint faced
Opposed the imposed Union of Lyons (1274), declined to accept the union settlement, and lost his throne. The book discusses the synodal anti-union testimony connected with him on printed p. 212.
Exile, imprisonment or torture
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Not established from the sources reviewed for this entry. No numerical duration has been invented.
Words and testimony of the Holy Fathers
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Greek testimony · printed p. 212
Εἰ δὲ τοὺς μόνον κοινωνοῦντας ἑτεροδόξοις, εἰ καὶ ὀρθοδοξοῦσιν, ἀποβάλλεσθαι χρήEditorial translation: If even those merely communing with the heterodox, though themselves Orthodox in belief, must be set aside...
A synodal document, not the patriarch's individually authored saying; quotation is only the opening clause.