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Sts Alexander (340), John (595), and Paul the New (784), patriarchs of Constantinople

Published: Aug. 30, 2023, 5:01 a.m.

b'St Alexander took part in the First Ecumenical Council as delegate of Patriarch Metrophanes, who was too frail to attend; and succeeded Metrophanes on the Patriarchal throne. By his prayer to God that the Church might be spared the schemings of Arius, Arius was struck dead.\\n\\u2003 St John is, by one account, St John the Faster (Sept. 2), who reposed in 595; by another, St John Scholasticus (Feb. 21), who reposed in 577.\\n\\u2003 St Paul was Patriarch for five years, then renounced the Patriarchal throne to take the Great Schema.'