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It makes a distinction between the divine and human natures of Jesus, but comes under immediate attack from Pope Celestine I, and Cyril of Alexandria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321157185#Religion", "title": "428", "revid": 1321157185, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 431, "year_label": "431 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June", "text": "June – First Council of Ephesus: Nestorianism is rejected; the Nicene Creed is declared to be complete. Nestorius is deposed from his see.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311961439#Religion", "title": "431", "revid": 1311961439, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 431, "year_label": "431 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – Maximianus is enthroned as Patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311961439#Religion", "title": "431", "revid": 1311961439, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 434, "year_label": "434 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – Maximianus dies on Great and Holy Thursday. He is succeeded by Proclus, who becomes archbishop of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747706#Religion", "title": "434", "revid": 1364747706, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 434, "year_label": "434 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – Maximianus, archbishop of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747706#Deaths", "title": "434", "revid": 1364747706, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 435, "year_label": "435 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 3", "text": "August 3 – Theodosius II exiles Nestorius, archbishop of Constantinople, to a monastery in the Libyan desert at the behest of his sister Pulcheria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339038049#Religion", "title": "435", "revid": 1339038049, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 449, "year_label": "449 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 11", "text": "August 11 – Flavian, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354021999#Deaths", "title": "449", "revid": 1354021999, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 449, "year_label": "449 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 3", "text": "August 3 – The Second Council of Ephesus opens, chaired by Dioscorus, patriarch of Alexandria. 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He appoints Macedonius II as his successor. Euphemius is sent into exile.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364740340#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "496", "revid": 1364740340, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 498, "year_label": "498 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Pope Anastasius II dies after a 2-year reign in which he has tried to conciliate followers of Acacius, late patriarch of Constantinople, who was excommunicated by Felix III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365508717#Religion", "title": "498", "revid": 1365508717, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 511, "year_label": "511 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Macedonius II is deposed as patriarch of Constantinople, and replaced by Timothy I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364740421#Religion", "title": "511", "revid": 1364740421, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 512, "year_label": "512 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369170659#Births", "title": "512", "revid": 1369170659, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 515, "year_label": "515 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Euphemius, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754462#Deaths", "title": "515", "revid": 1364754462, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 517, "year_label": "517 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Macedonius II, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340791909#Deaths", "title": "517", "revid": 1340791909, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 520, "year_label": "520 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – Epiphanius is elected patriarch of Constantinople by Byzantine Emperor Justin I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364908909#Religion", "title": "520", "revid": 1364908909, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 520, "year_label": "520 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – John of Cappadocia, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364908909#Deaths", "title": "520", "revid": 1364908909, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 535, "year_label": "535 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Anthimus I becomes patriarch of Constantinople (535–536).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342880383#Religion", "title": "535", "revid": 1342880383, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 535, "year_label": "535 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – Epiphanius, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342880383#Deaths", "title": "535", "revid": 1342880383, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 536, "year_label": "536 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Before March 13 – Anthimus I is deposed as patriarch of Constantinople in favour of Menas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362906459#Religion", "title": "536", "revid": 1362906459, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 552, "year_label": "552 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Eutychius becomes patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800166#Religion", "title": "552", "revid": 1340800166, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 552, "year_label": "552 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Menas, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800166#Deaths", "title": "552", "revid": 1340800166, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 565, "year_label": "565 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople is deposed as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople by Justinian I after he refuses the Byzantine Emperor's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of Monophysites. From April 12 he is replaced by John Scholasticus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749296#Religion", "title": "565", "revid": 1364749296, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 567, "year_label": "567 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "John III, patriarch of Constantinople, organizes a compromise between the Chalcedonians and Monophysites.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800789#Religion", "title": "567", "revid": 1340800789, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 577, "year_label": "577 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Eutychius is restored as patriarch of Constantinople, after an exile of 12 years at Amasia (modern Turkey).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369170756#Religion", "title": "577", "revid": 1369170756, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 577, "year_label": "577 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 31", "text": "August 31 – John Scholasticus, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369170756#Deaths", "title": "577", "revid": 1369170756, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 582, "year_label": "582 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – John Nesteutes becomes the 33rd bishop or patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751218#Religion", "title": "582", "revid": 1364751218, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 582, "year_label": "582 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751218#Deaths", "title": "582", "revid": 1364751218, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 595, "year_label": "595 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 2", "text": "September 2 – John IV (\"the Faster\"), patriarch of Constantinople, dies after a 13-year reign in which he has mediated disputes between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Monophysites.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367658603#Religion", "title": "595", "revid": 1367658603, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 595, "year_label": "595 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 2", "text": "September 2 – John IV, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367658603#Deaths", "title": "595", "revid": 1367658603, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 606, "year_label": "606 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Cyriacus II, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340802689#Deaths", "title": "606", "revid": 1340802689, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 607, "year_label": "607 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 11", "text": "October 11 – Thomas I is appointed as the 60th patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340802681#Religion", "title": "607", "revid": 1340802681, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 619, "year_label": "619 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Heraclius prepares to leave Constantinople and moves the Byzantine capital to Carthage, but is convinced to stay by Sergius I, patriarch of Constantinople. He begins to rebuild the Byzantine army with the aid of funds from church treasures.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340802932#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "619", "revid": 1340802932, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 622, "year_label": "622 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine–Sasanian War: Emperor Heraclius sails from Constantinople with an expeditionary force (probably 50,000 men), and starts a counter-offensive against the Persian Empire (his young son, Constantine III, is left behind as regent under the charge of Sergius I, patriarch of Constantinople, and patrician Bonus). He lands a few days later at the junction of Cilicia and Syria, near Alexandretta and ancient Issus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368342469#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "622", "revid": 1368342469, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 638, "year_label": "638 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 20", "text": "December 20 – Pyrrhus I becomes patriarch of Constantinople, after the death of Sergius I. He has been an advocate of Monothelitism and a close friend of Heraclius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557443#Religion", "title": "638", "revid": 1369557443, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 654, "year_label": "654 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Pyrrhus, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362652029#Deaths", "title": "654", "revid": 1362652029, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 693, "year_label": "693 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Callinicus I becomes the 71st patriarch of Constantinople, after Paul III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806250#Religion", "title": "693", "revid": 1340806250, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 693, "year_label": "693 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 - Paul III, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806250#Deaths", "title": "693", "revid": 1340806250, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 705, "year_label": "705 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Kallinikos I, patriarch of Constantinople (or 706)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807090#Deaths", "title": "705", "revid": 1340807090, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 706, "year_label": "706 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Kallinikos I, patriarch of Constantinople (or 705)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367660928#Deaths", "title": "706", "revid": 1367660928, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 730, "year_label": "730 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Tarasios, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808684#Births", "title": "730", "revid": 1340808684, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 758, "year_label": "758 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Nikephoros I, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654492#Births", "title": "758", "revid": 1366654492, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 766, "year_label": "766 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Patriarch Constantine II is deposed and jailed, after the discovery of Constantine Podopagouros' plot against Constantine V. Nicetas I is appointed patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267073182#Religion", "title": "766", "revid": 1267073182, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 767, "year_label": "767 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Constantine II, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350246348#Deaths", "title": "AD 767", "revid": 1350246348, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 784, "year_label": "784 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Paul IV, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848263#Deaths", "title": "784", "revid": 1340848263, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 784, "year_label": "784 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "August 30", "text": "August 30 – Paul IV abdicates as patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848263#Religion", "title": "784", "revid": 1340848263, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 797, "year_label": "797 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ignatius I, patriarch of Constantinople (or 798)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358611998#Births", "title": "797", "revid": 1358611998, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 798, "year_label": "798 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ignatius I, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848766#Births", "title": "798", "revid": 1340848766, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 806, "year_label": "806 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – Nikephoros I is elected patriarch of Constantinople, succeeding Tarasios.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292643508#Religion", "title": "806", "revid": 1292643508, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 806, "year_label": "806 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – Tarasios, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292643508#Deaths", "title": "806", "revid": 1292643508, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 810, "year_label": "810 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Photius I, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848812#Births", "title": "810", "revid": 1340848812, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 813, "year_label": "813 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the name Athanasius). His sons are castrated to prevent them succeeding the Byzantine throne, and relegated into monasteries. One of them, Niketas (renamed Ignatius), eventually becomes a patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340940841#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "813", "revid": 1340940841, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 837, "year_label": "837 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Antony I, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941882#Deaths", "title": "837", "revid": 1340941882, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 852, "year_label": "852 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Nicholas I Mystikos, Byzantine patriarch (d. 925)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1287194271#Births", "title": "852", "revid": 1287194271, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 858, "year_label": "858 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – Ignatios I, patriarch of Constantinople, is imprisoned by orders of Emperor Michael III, and replaced by the layman Photius I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129132#Religion", "title": "858", "revid": 1341129132, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 867, "year_label": "867 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September", "text": "September – Photius I (\"the Great\"), patriarch of Constantinople, is removed from office and banished. Ignatius is reinstated as patriarch by Basil I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366655299#Religion", "title": "867", "revid": 1366655299, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 877, "year_label": "877 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – Ignatius, patriarch of Constantinople", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267071400#Deaths", "title": "877", "revid": 1267071400, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 877, "year_label": "877 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – Photius I is reinstated as patriarch of Constantinople, after the death of Ignatius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267071400#Religion", "title": "877", "revid": 1267071400, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 879, "year_label": "879 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Fourth Council of Constantinople: Emperor Basil I calls for a synod, and reinstates Photius I as patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348046041#Religion", "title": "879", "revid": 1348046041, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 893, "year_label": "893 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 18", "text": "May 18 – Stephen I, patriarch of Constantinople (b. 867)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364917563#Deaths", "title": "893", "revid": 1364917563, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 901, "year_label": "901 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – Nicholas Mystikos, a layman close to Photios, becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345013381#Religion", "title": "901", "revid": 1345013381, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 907, "year_label": "907 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 1", "text": "February 1 – Nicholas I Mystikos is deposed as Patriarch of Constanstinople, (having fallen out with the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI), and is replaced by Euthymius I Syncellus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130849#Religion", "title": "907", "revid": 1341130849, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 912, "year_label": "912 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Euthymius I is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople, and Nicholas Mystikos is restored.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468136#Religion", "title": "912", "revid": 1364468136, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 925, "year_label": "925 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 15", "text": "May 15 – Nicholas I Mystikos, twice the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and having reigned a second time since 912, dies at the age of 73.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367671300#January_–_June", "title": "925", "revid": 1367671300, "section": "Events › By date › January – June"}}, {"year": 925, "year_label": "925 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 15", "text": "May 15 – Nicholas I Mystikos, Byzantine patriarch (b. 852)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367671300#Deaths", "title": "925", "revid": 1367671300, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 928, "year_label": "928 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – Tryphon succeeds Stephen II as patriarch of Constantinople (until 931).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364916804#Religion", "title": "928", "revid": 1364916804, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1001, "year_label": "1001 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July", "text": "July – Sergius II becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341910152#Europe", "title": "1001", "revid": 1341910152, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1134, "year_label": "1134 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Leo Styppes becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321069056#Religion", "title": "1134", "revid": 1321069056, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1303, "year_label": "1303 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – Athanasius I returns to leadership of the Eastern Orthodox church in Byzantium, receiving recognition as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople almost 10 years of having been driven from that office.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360891664#April–June", "title": "1303", "revid": 1360891664, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1400, "year_label": "1400 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Gennadius Scholarius, Byzantine Greek philosopher and theologian, and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1473)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369029011#Births", "title": "1400", "revid": 1369029011, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1403, "year_label": "1403 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – The Emperor Manuel II restores Matthew I as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christians. Matthew had been deposed the previous autumn during the Emperor's absence from Byzantium.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371593649#April–June", "title": "1403", "revid": 1371593649, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1482, "year_label": "1482 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 3", "text": "April 3 – Symeon I succeeds Maximus III as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368493356#April–June", "title": "1482", "revid": 1368493356, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1525, "year_label": "1525 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 24", "text": "September 24 – Jeremias I is restored to the position of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian church, by order of the Ottoman Empire Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368819017#July–September", "title": "1525", "revid": 1368819017, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1579, "year_label": "1579 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – Jeremias II Tranos is removed from office as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and replaced by his rival Metrophanes III of Constantinople, whom he deposed on May 4, 1572.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362792771#October–December", "title": "1579", "revid": 1362792771, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1584, "year_label": "1584 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 22", "text": "February 22 – After being falsely accused of various charges, Jeremias II Tranos, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is deposed by his fellow bishops and exiled to the island of Rhodes. 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