** Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice

** Ignatius of Antioch

** The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia – Robert Ignatius Burns, S. J.

** St Ignatius ' College, Riverview

** Eutychius of Constantinople ( Byzantine Church )

** Translation of the Acheiropoietos icon from Edessa to Constantinople.

** Helena of Constantinople ( Roman Catholic Church )

** Menas of Constantinople

** Alexander of Constantinople

** Capetian House of Courtenay – Latin Emperors of Constantinople ( 1217 – 1283 )

** Flavian of Constantinople

** Paul I of Constantinople

** Methodios I of Constantinople

** Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople

** May 1453 lunar eclipse-Fall of Constantinople

** Theodosia of Constantinople ( Eastern Orthodox Church )

** Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople ( Eastern Church )

** Gregory of Nazianzus, Doctor, Bishop of Constantinople, 389 CE ( commemoration, Anglican Communion )

** Helena of Constantinople, also known as " Feast of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles.

** Gennadius of Constantinople ( Greek Orthodox Church )

** Nectarius of Constantinople

** Britain, France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory ( the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik Revolution ).

** Ankara replaces Constantinople as the capital of Turkey.

** Ecumenical Patriarch Athanasius II of Constantinople ( all killed in, or shortly after, the siege of Constantinople )

** Patriarch Leo of Constantinople

** Byzantine-Ottoman Wars – The Ottoman governor of Thessaly, Turakhan Beg, breaks through the Hexamilion wall for the fourth time and ravages the Peloponnese peninsula, to prevent the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea from assisting Constantinople during the final Ottoman siege of the imperial capital.

** Genoese ships fleeing the Black Death plague in Kaffa stop in Constantinople, contaminating the city.

Fourth Council of Constantinople ( 869 – 870 ) deposed Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople as an usurper and reinstated his predecessor Saint Ignatius.

The Council settled the dispute that had broken out after the deposition of Ignatius as Patriarch of Constantinople in 858.

After the death of Ignatius in 877, Photius mounted the See of Constantinople for a second time.

Photius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, shortly after the council in which he had pronounced sentence of deposition against Pope Nicholas I, was driven from the patriarchate by a new emperor, Basil the Macedonian, who favoured his rival Ignatius.

* September – Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople is removed from office and banished ; Ignatius is patriarch of Constantinople once again.

* Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople

In 858, Emperor Michael III ( r. 842 – 867 ) deposed Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople, and Photios, still a layman, was appointed in his place.

* Ignatius of Constantinople ( 799 – 877 ): twice Patriarch of Constantinople during troubled political times and 867 – 877.

At least eight bishops are known ( Le Quien, Oriens christianus, I, 1181 ): Athanasius ( 431 ), Peter ( 680 ), Euthymius ( 787 ) and Ignatius ( 869 ); Theodosius ( 1357 ), Joannicius, who became Patriarch of Constantinople ( 1524 ), Philotheus ( 1564 ) and Joasaph ( 1721 ).

During his reign, relations with the Byzantine Empire soured over his support for Ignatius, Patriarch of Constantinople, who had been removed from his post in favor of Photius.

He contended that the Patriarch of Constantinople Ignatius was deposed in 857 and Photius raised to the patriarchal see in violation of ecclesiastical law.

According to the historian Socrates of Constantinople, it was introduced into Christian worship by Ignatius of Antioch ( died 107 ) who, in a vision, had seen angels singing in alternating choirs.

* Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople ( 797 – 877 )

At least three councils ( 867, 869, 879 ) were held in Constantinople over the deposition of Ignatius by Emperor Michael III and the replacing of him by Photius.

Due to various conflicts arising during the replacement of Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople by Photius, the Council of Constantinople ( 867 ) was convened via Photius, to address the question of Papal Supremacy over all of the churches and their patriarchs and the use of the Filioque.

Pope Nicholas had attempted to remove Photius and reappoint Ignatius as the Patriarch of Constantinople by his own authority and decree.

* Patriarch Ignatius of Constantinople ( c. 797 – 877 ), Patriarch of Constantinople, considered a saint by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches

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