* 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* 1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.

* 1972 – Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople ( b. 1886 )

* 1886 – Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

* 1948 – Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.

A major event of the final days of the council was the act of Pope Paul and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras of a joint expression of regret for many of the past actions that had led up to the Great Schism between the western and eastern churches.

** In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the 15th century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I meet in Jerusalem.

* March 25 – Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople ( d. 1972 )

In 1965, those excommunications are rescinded by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras when they meet in the Second Vatican Council.

Ecumenical dialogue over the past 43 years since Paul VI's meeting with the Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I has awoken the nearly 1000-year hopes for Christian unity.

* Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople

After returning to Istanbul in 1968, he took a position at the Patriarchal Theological Seminary of Halki, where he was ordained a priest in 1969, by Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I.

Athenagoras I (), born Aristocles Spyrou (; – July 7, 1972 ) was the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972.

Patriarch Athenagoras was born on into an Albanian, Aromanian or Greek family as Aristocles Spyrou in Vasiliko, near Ioannina, Epirus ( then Ottoman Empire ).

Returning from a fact-finding trip to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in America in 1930, Metropolitan Damaskinos recommended to Patriarch Photios II that he appoint Metropolitan Athenagoras to the position of Archbishop of North and South America as the best person to bring harmony to the American diocese.

The controversial declaration did not end the 1054 schism, but rather showed a desire for greater reconciliation between the two churches, as represented by Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I.

* A Protest to Patriarch Athenagoras On the Lifting of the Anathemas of 1054 by Metr.

* Another Common Declaration of Pope Paul VI and the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I ( 28 October 1967 )

* Remembering Patriarch Athenagoras

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Athenagoras, Patriarch

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* Patriarch Athenagoras ( 1886 – 1972 ), Patriarch of Constantinople from 1948 to 1972

* Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople ( I ) – Patriarch of Constantinople 730 – 754

Patriarch Fulcher objected to the marriage on grounds of consanguinity, as the two shared a great-great-grandfather, Guy I of Montlhéry, and it seems that they waited until Fulcher's death to marry.

* Patriarch Alexius I of Constantinople ( 1025-1043 )

* Cyril Lucaris ( Patriarch Cyril I of Constantinople ), reigned for six terms between 1612 and 1638

* Patriarch Constantine I of Constantinople

Over the last 30 years, however, the miaphysite position has been accepted as a mere restatement of orthodox belief by Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Eastern Orthodox Church and by Pope John Paul II of the Roman Catholic Church.

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

In 913, Simeon I of Bulgaria was crowned Emperor ( Tsar ) by the Patriarch of Constantinople and imperial regent Nicholas Mystikos outside of the Byzantine capital.

By the time of the Byzantine Iconoclasm several centuries later, Eusebius had unfairly gained the reputation of having been an Arian, and was roundly condemned as such by Patriarch Nikephoros I of Constantinople.

Another major feat was his appointment as the Patriarch of Constantinople by expelling Paul I of Constantinople ; Paul would eventually return as Patriarch after Eusebius ' death.

* 1940 – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

* Patriarch Jeremias I of Constantinople ( fl.

In 730, Patriarch Germanos I of Constantinople resigned rather than subscribe to an iconoclastic decree.

** Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople ( Eastern Church )

The church survived these trials under the guidance of Patriarch Mar Abba I, who had converted to Christianity from Zoroastrianism.

For example, Photius I of Constantinople, who became Patriarch in 858 and was deposed by Pope Nicholas I in 863, was an enemy of the Pope.

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.

To this end, Honorius " sent his deacon Gaios " to a synod in Cyprus in 634 hosted by archbishop Arkadios II with additional representatives from Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople.