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St Photius the Great, tr. Freese, 1920; selections

19. Codex 19: Acts of the Sixth Council—Constantinople II

Read the Acts of the sixth Council,¹ at the sessions of which Sergius,² Cyrus,³ and Pyrrhus⁴ of Constantinople were excommunicated, together with Honorius⁵ of Rome, Polychronius,⁶ and others, who had ventured to assert that there was only one will and one energy in Christ. The dogma of truth was confirmed.

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Of Constantinople (680).
Patriarch of Constantinople (610-638).
Bishop of Phasis, afterwards patriarch of Alexandria (630-641).
Friend and successor of Sergius as patriarch of Constantinople (638-641).
Pope (625-638).
Monothelite presbyter and monk.