Location:
Turkey
Coordinates:
41.0082, 28.9784
Events at Constantinople (14)
379
ID: 3783
St. Basil's monastic rules spread - creates balanced monasticism emphasizing community, charity, and learning
ID: 3783
379
ID: 3819
St. Gregory Nazianzus in Constantinople - brilliant orations restore Nicene faith, called 'The Theologian'
ID: 3819
381
ID: 4904
St. Gregory of Nazianzus presides briefly at Council of Constantinople - resigns as Patriarch to preserve peace
ID: 4904
398
ID: 3828
St. John Chrysostom becomes Patriarch of Constantinople - reforms clergy, criticizes empress, earns enemies
ID: 3828
404
ID: 3829
St. John Chrysostom exiled - Empress Eudoxia banishes him for criticizing luxury, dies in exile 407
ID: 3829
449
ID: 5016
Death of St. Flavian - Patriarch of Constantinople dies from beating received at Robber Council, martyr for orthodox Christology
ID: 5016
523
ID: 3887
St. John I becomes fifty-third pope - first pope to visit Constantinople, martyred by Theodoric
ID: 3887
535
ID: 3891
St. Agapetus I becomes fifty-seventh pope - deposes Patriarch of Constantinople, dies there
ID: 3891
678
ID: 3913
St. Agatho becomes seventy-ninth pope - Third Council of Constantinople condemns Monothelitism
ID: 3913
708
ID: 3922
Constantine becomes eighty-eighth pope - last pope to visit Constantinople until Paul VI
ID: 3922
802
ID: 2912
Byzantine negotiations - Empress Irene proposes marriage to unite empires, she's deposed before completion
ID: 2912
812
ID: 2921
Byzantine recognition - Emperor Michael I recognizes Charlemagne as Emperor of the West, two Roman Empires acknowledged
ID: 2921
907
ID: 3708
Rus' Vikings attack Constantinople - Oleg's fleet threatens Byzantine capital, secures favorable trade treaty
ID: 3708
941
ID: 3710
Igor of Kiev attacks Constantinople - Rus' fleet destroyed by Greek fire, major Viking defeat
ID: 3710