Methodios I.

Triumph of Orthodoxy, icon 14./15. Century, British Museum London, Methodios in the top right row

Methodios I (Greek Μεθόδιος Α΄ ) was Patriarch of Constantinople (843-847). With him, the iconoclasm in the Orthodox Church of Constantinople ended. He is venerated as a saint in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches . The day of remembrance is June 14th .

Life

Methodios was born in Syracuse . He went to a monastery in Bithynia at a young age . 815 he stayed in Rome . In 821 he was arrested in Constantinople because of his image-friendly attitude. In 829 he was rehabilitated and held an office in the legal apparatus of Constantinople.

On March 4, 843 he became Patriarch of Constantinople. Theodora II , who took over the reign for her three-year-old son Michael III. exercised, had him appointed to reintroduce the worship of images in the Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire. As early as March 11, 843, icons were again brought to the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople in a solemn service . This event has since been celebrated in the Orthodox Church as the feast of Orthodoxy .

He died on June 14, 847 in Constantinople.

literature

• Entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913.

predecessor	Office	successor
John VII	Patriarch of Constantinople 843–847	Ignatios I.