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Mark and Ephesus
This title is historically known as “ Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa on the Holy Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist ,” that is “ of Alexandria and of all Africa .” The title of “ Patriarch ” was first used around the time of the Third Ecumenical Council of Ephesus, convened in AD 431, and ratified at Chalcedon in AD 451.
However, this agreement was denied by one of the Orthodox bishops present, namely Mark of Ephesus, and the common people of the Orthodox churches generally rejected the agreement as well.
Only Bishop Mark of Ephesus, however, refused to accept the union and became the leader of opposition back home.
On 6 June 1439 an agreement was signed by Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople and all the Eastern bishops but one, Saint Mark of Ephesus, who held that Rome continued in both heresy and schism.
He made four speeches at the council-all exceedingly conciliatory, and wrote a refutation of the first eighteen of Mark of Ephesus ' syllogistic chapters against the Latins.
Despite his advocating the union ( and berating many of the Orthodox bishops for their lack of theological learnedness ), when he came back to Constantinople, like most of his countrymen, he changed his mind, apparently at the behest of his mentor Mark of Ephesus, who converted him completely to anti-Latin Orthodoxy, and from this time till his death he was known ( with Mark of Ephesus ) as the most uncompromising enemy of the union.
In 1447, Mark of Ephesus on his deathbed praised Gennadius's irreconcilable attitude towards the Latins and the union ( P. G., CLX, 529 ).
The current Ephesus dates back to 400BC and was the site of the Temple of Artemis one of the seven wonders of the world, the home of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, Mary Magdalen and where St Paul read his letter to the Ephesians.
On 6 June 1439 an agreement was signed by all the Eastern bishops present but one, Mark of Ephesus, who held that Rome continued in both heresy and schism.
It was qualified as such by some of the Eastern Orthodox Church's saints, including Photios I of Constantinople, Mark of Ephesus, Gregory Palamas, who have been called the Three Pillars of Orthodoxy.
Although some Orthodox have described this intermediate state as " purgatory ", others distinguish it from aspects associated with it in the West: at the Council of Ferrara-Florence, the Orthodox Bishop and Saint Mark of Ephesus argued that there are in it no purifying fires.
" Of this action, Saint Mark of Ephesus says, " We can do nothing better or greater for the dead than to pray for them, offering commemoration for them at the Liturgy.
This title is historically known as “ Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa on the Holy Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist ,” that is “ of Alexandria and of all Africa .” The title of “ Patriarch ” was first used around the time of the Third Ecumenical Council of Ephesus, convened in 431 AD, and ratified at Chalcedon in 451 AD.
Although the only completed volume of the series ends at this point, according to Muir the story was continued " with an account of how Luther, Calvin, and Mark of Ephesus ( the 15th-century Greek theologian who had opposed the unification of the Greek and Roman churches ) offered their own churches as the new bride of Christ.
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