Menas - ܡܐܝܢܐ
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“Before his accession to the episcopal throne of Constantinople, Menas, of Alexandrian origin, was director of the hospice of Samson. As patriarch, Menas defended the orthodoxy of the council of Chalcedon and supported Justinian in his condemnation of the Three Chapters and of Origenism, which brought him into repeated conflicts with the Roman bishop Vigilius.” 5
Names
Floruit
536-552
Death
25 August 552
Status: draft
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- 1 "Lives of the Eastern Saints III." Patrologia Orientalis vol. 29.2 (1925)., p: 280 [626].
- 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menas_of_Constantinople
- 3 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 51, chapter: 3.1.42.
- 4 Maurice Geerard et al., Clavis Patrum Graecorum, Corpus Christianorum (Turnhout: Brepols, 1974-2003), entry: 6923-6934, p: III, 310-312.
- 5 Alexander P. Kazhdan (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)., p: 1339-1340.
- 6 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 51.
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