The Byzantine scholar and writer Photius (ca. 820-891) was patriarch of Constantinople and leader of the Orthodox Byzantine Renaissance. Photius was trained from his early years to be a philosopher and scholar. He taught at the Imperial Academy at...

PHOTIOS (c. 820–891), patriarch of Constantinople, saint of the Orthodox church, was a scholar, public minister, diplomat, professor, organizer of missions, ecclesiastical writer, and hierarch. Photios was born into a noble family. His father,...

St. Photios I (also spelled Photius), or St. Photios the Great (Greek: Φώτιος, Phōtios) (c. 820 – February 6, 893) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 867 and from 877 to 886. Photios is widely regarded as the most powerful and...

The second day of the school year in Istanbul was a good one to be indoors. The air was cool without being fresh and the leaden skies threatened rain. And surely no school, I thought, could look more attractively impressive than the one...

Borys A. Gudziak. Crisis and Reform. The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. xviii, 489pp. Maps, illustrations, appendices. Cloth. A fresh approach to an old and difficult problem is...