Portal:Fourth Council of Constantinople (Catholic)
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The Fourth Council of Constantinople met in ten sessions from October 869 to February 870 and issued 27 canons. The council was called by Emperor Basil I the Macedonian and Pope Adrian II. It deposed Photios, a layman who had been appointed as Patriarch of Constantinople, and reinstated his predecessor Ignatius.
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Works about the Fourth Council of Constantinople
- "The Schism of Photius," in The Orthodox Eastern Church by Adrian Fortescue (1907)
- "Constantinople, Councils of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Councils of Constantinople," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)