, a celebrated patriarch of Constantinople, of the ninth century,
, a celebrated patriarch of Constantinople, of the ninth century, was distinguished for his
zealous defence of the worship of images, against the emperor Leo the Armenian, who banished him in the year
815, to a monastery, where he died in the year 828, aged
seventy. His works are, “An Abridgment of History,
”
from the death of the emperor Mauritius to Constantino
Copronymus, printed at the Louvre, 1648, fol. It forms
part of the Byzantine history, and has been translated into
French by president Cousin. It is said to be accurate,
but written in a dry and concise style. An “Abridgment
of Chronography,
” which is at the end of Syncellus; and
several other works in Greek, which may be found in P.
Labbe’s Councils, or the Library of the Fathers. Cardinal Baronius has inserted this patriarch’s “Confession
of Faith
” in torn. XI. of his Annals. He is supposed by
Lardner and others, to have been the author of “The
Stichometry,
” a catalogue of the books of sacred scripture,
which, ifof no other use, at least shews that the Jewish
canon was generally esteemed sacred by Christians, and
that the other books of the Old Testament, which are now
deemed “Apocryphal,
” were not of equal authority, though
sometimes read in the churches, and quoted by Christian
writers.