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Anthimus - ܐܢܬܝܡܣ

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Anthimus was a sixth-century Miaphysite Patriarch of Constantinople who is commemorated by John of Ephesus in the Lives of the Eastern Saints. 1

Names

  • ܐܢܬܝܡܣ1
  • Anthimus
  • ܐܢܬܝܡܘܣ4
  • Anthime1
  • Anthimus of Constantinople3
  • Anthimus Trapezuntinus5
  • Antimōs
  • ʾAntīmōs1

Floruit

535-536

Sex

male7

Notes

Anthimus was a sixth-century Miaphysite Patriarch of Constantinople who is commemorated by John of Ephesus in the Lives of the Eastern Saints. 1 "Anthimus was bishop of Trebizond in north-eastern Asia Minor when Justinian chose him as new patriarch of Constantinople. Probably on imperial orders, Anthimus approached the leading miaphysites of his day, Severus of Antioch and Theodosius of Alexandria. Because of this, opponents started claiming that he had condemned Chalcedon and entered into communion with Severus. Resistance to him grew in Constantinople and his position became untenable when the staunchly Chalcedonian Roman bishop Agapetus visited the capital in March 536. He stepped down as bishop and, together with many other miaphysites, enjoyed the protection of the empress Theodora until her death in 548."6
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  • 1 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 630. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Albert van Roey and Pauline Allen, Monophysite Texts of the Sixth Century, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 56 (Leuven: Peeters, 1994). Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Anthimus of Constantinople