Patriarch Paul IV of Constantinople

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Paul IV was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 780-784. He had once opposed the veneration of icons but urged the calling of a general council to address the iconoclast controversy. He resigned and retired to a monastery due to old age and illness. He was succeeded by Tarasius, who was a lay administrator.

[edit] References

• The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, J. M. Hussey, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986.

Preceded by Nicetas I

Patriarch of Constantinople 780–784

Succeeded by Tarasios