Constantine II of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 754 to 766

Constantine II of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Installed	754
Term ended	766
Personal details
Denomination	Chalcedonian Christianity

Constantine II (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος, Kōnstantinos; died 7 October 767) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 754 to 766. He had been ecumenically proceeded by Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople.^[1] He was a supporter of the first phase of Byzantine Iconoclasm and devoutly opposed to the creation of images,^[2] but he was deposed and jailed after the discovery of Constantine Podopagouros' plot against the Emperor Constantine V^[3] in June 766, in which the patriarch was later implicated.

In autumn 767, Constantine II was paraded through the Hippodrome of Constantinople and finally beheaded. He was succeeded by Nicetas I of Constantinople.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "All-Holy Ecumenical Patriarchs".
^ Claude Delaval Cobham. 2016 (originally published in 1911). The Patriarchs of Constantinople. Cambridge University Press. P. 82. "Anastasius (730–754), Constantine II. (754––766) and Nicetas (766—780), all of them elkovouáxot, were court-nominees."
^ Ruth J. Macrides (2010). History as Literature in Byzantium: Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. Ashgate Publishing.