** Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople ( Eastern Church )

That same year Gregory wrote to Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople, giving the patriarch his support, and when Germanus abdicated, Gregory refused to acknowledge the new patriarch, Anastasius, nor the iconoclast rulings of a council summoned by Leo.

* Spring – Emperor Justinian I appoints his cousin Germanus as magister militum to deal with the crisis in Africa.

Through the intercession of Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople Anastasius II was convinced to abdicate and become a monk in Thessalonica.

The following two sub-sections consist of quotes from Saint Germanus I, Patriarch of Constantinople ( 715-730 ):

Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople

Saint Germanus I was Patriarch of Constantinople from 715 to 730.

* Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Germanus I

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After his death Matasuntha married the patrician Germanus Justinus, a nephew of Justinian I by his sister Vigilantia.

He lived in Rome between 418 – 429, and appears to be the " Deacon Palladius " responsible for urging Pope Celestine I to send the bishop Germanus to Britain, where he guided " the Britons back to the Catholic faith.

When the Lombards applied to the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I for help against the Gepids, he sent an army under the command of Justinus and Justinianus, the sons of Germanus ; Aratius and Suartuas ( a former ruler of the Heruli ); and Amalafrid.

* Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople ( patriarch 715-730 )

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Germanus (; died 550 ) was an East Roman ( Byzantine ) general, one of the leading commanders of Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ).

Germanus was born before 505, the nephew of Emperor Justin I ( r. 518 – 527 ) and thus cousin of Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ), and not his nephew, as is often erroneously stated.

id: Germanus ( sepupu Yustinianus I )

* Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople ( 740 )

: PG 98: Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople, Cosmas of Jerusalem, St. Gregory II Bishop of Agrigentum, Anonymus Becuccianus, Pantaleon Deacon of Constantinople, Adrian monk, Epiphanius Deacon of Catania, Pachomius monk, Philotheus monk, Patriarch Tarasios of Constantinople

: PG 140: Nicetas Choniates, Anonymus Greek, Michael Acominatus Archbishop of Athens, Theodorus Bishop of Alania, Theodorus bishop of ( S ) Andide, Manuel Magnus Rhetor of Constantinople, Pantaleo Deacon of Constantinople, Manuel Charitopulus, Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople, Michael Chumnus Metropolite of Thessalonica, Emperor Theodore I Laskaris, Methodius monk, Patriarch Nicephorus II of Constantinople, Constantine Acropolita, Arsenius Autorianus ( Patriarch Arsenius I of Constantinople ), Georgius Acropolita, Nicephorus Chumnus, Alexander IV, Sixtus IV

Consular diptych ( 540 ) of Justin ( consul 540 ) | Justin, son of Germanus ( cousin of Justinian I ) | Germanus, cousin of Justinian.

Anastasios upheld the decisions of the Sixth Ecumenical Council and deposed the Monothelete Patriarch John VI of Constantinople, replacing him with the orthodox Patriarch Germanus in 715.

* August 11 – Germanus is translated from the bishopric of Cyzicus to the Patriarch of Constantinople.

In 726, despite the protests of St. Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople, Emperor Leo III issued his first edict against the veneration of images and their exhibition in public places.

Of particular importance are the famous Arian ; Eunomius of Cyzicus ; Saint Dalmatius ; Proclus of Constantinople and Germanus of Auxerre, who became Patriarchs of Constantinople ; and Saint Emilian, a martyr in the eighth century.

On 11 August 714 / 715, Germanus was elected Patriarch of Constantinople.

In this period however, both the terms “ Graikoi ” and “ Hellenes ” appear to enter into the diplomatic usage of the empire as a form of religious and ethnic self-identification, spurred by a desire to differentiate the empire and its citizens from the Latins. Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople in particular exemplifies this new vision of ethnic and religious identity, as, in his letters, he equates good birth with the purity of his Hellenistic ancestry, placing more value in his Hellenistic linguistic and ethnic background than in any association with Constantinople, showing his contempt for the Latins who prided themselves on possessing the city.

Under the presidency of Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople and with the consent of all Eastern Patriarchs, the council confirmed the Patriarchal dignity of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and consecrated the Bulgarian archbishop German as Patriarch.

Cassian and Germanus went to Constantinople, where they appealed to the Patriarch of Constantinople, Saint John Chrysostom, for protection.

In the next year, as Belisarius assumed command in the East, Germanus returned to Constantinople.

Her husband died, apparently in the early years of her marriage, leaving her with two children, Athalaric and Matasuntha ( c. 517 – after 550 ), wife c. 550 of Germanus.

According to one authority ( a legend on the 1489 map of Henricus Martellus Germanus ), Cão died off Cape Cross ; but João de Barros and others wrote of his return to the Congo, and subsequent taking of a native envoy to Portugal.

Archbishop Germanus ' second ( and last ) mission to Britain was twenty years before ( 447 AD ) and he died the following year.

* Saint Germanus of Auxerre, bishop of Auxerre ( died 448 )

Other notable plays include Buchedd Garmon ( The life of Germanus ) ( radio play, 1936 ), Siwan ( 1956 ), Gymerwch chi sigarét?

Pope Gregory II ( term 715-731 ), a fellow iconodule, praised Germanus ' " zeal and steadfastness ".

* Saint Patrick ( 5th Century AD ), Apostle to the Irish, visited Bishop Germanus of Auxerre here.

Antillia ( and all its companions ) are conspicuously omitted in the map of Gabriel de Vallseca ( 1439 ), the Genoese map ( 1457 ), the Fra Mauro map ( 1459 ) and the maps of Henricus Martellus Germanus ( 1484, 1489 ) and Pedro Reinel ( c. 1485 ).

* Germanus ( Cermanus ), Spanish martyr-saint ( see Servandus and Cermanus )

* Germanus of Auxerre ( 378-448 ), bishop of Auxerre who founded the Carolingian abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre named for the same saint

* Germanus of Paris ( 496-576 ), also Saint Germain of Paris

* Germanus of Granfelden ( 612-675 ), Saint

* Germanus of Normandy ( May 2 ), see Normandy

:* Barnabas, Gennadius, Gerasimus, Germanus ( Herman ), Theognostus, Theoctistus, Jeremiah, John, Joseph, Conon, Cyril, Maximus and Mark.

According to John Morris's textual analysis of the Historia, this tale derived from a north Welsh narrative which was mainly about Emrys ( Ambrosius Aurelianus ), which the compiler of the Historia incorporated into a framework drawn from a Kentish chronicle, together with details from a Life of Saint Germanus.

* Saint Germain of Paris ( Germanus ), Bishop ( 576 )

* Translation of the Relics of Saint Herman ( Germanus ), Archbishop of Kazan

* The Last Legion ( as Germanus ), 2007

Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople ( term c. 715-730 ), whose father was named Justinian, might have been a descendant of the dynasty.

* Hieromartyrs Gerontius and Serapion ( hieromonks ), Otar ( deacon ), Monk-martyrs Germanus, Bessarion, and Michael, and Martyr Symeon, of Davit Gareji Monastery, Georgia ( 1851 )