October 821-836 A.D. Anthony I—Constantinople’s 82nd; Lawyer; Became Iconoclast When Emperor Leo Reinstituted It; Iconodulolatrous Historians Claim He Died Due to Iconoclasm
October 821-836 A.D. Anthony
I—Constantinople’s 82nd; Lawyer; Became Iconoclast When Emperor Leo
Reinstituted It; Iconodulolatrous
Historians Claim He Died Due to Iconoclasm
Antony I of
Constantinople
Life
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Antony I of
Constantinople
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Antony
I Kassymatas, (Greek: Αντώνιος Α΄ Κασσυματάς, Antōnios
I Kassymatas), Patriarch of Constantinople from January 821 to January 837.
Life
Antony was of undistinguished
background but received a good education, becoming a lawyer in Constantinople in c. 800. He later became a monk and advanced to
the position of abbot. By 814 he had become the bishop of Syllaion in Anatolia. Although Antony was an Iconodule, he became an Iconoclast in 815, when Emperor Leo V reinstituted Iconoclasm. The reason for Antony's
change of heart is said to have included his hope for attaining the
patriarchate. The emperor appointed him a member of the committee headed by the
future Patriarch John Grammatikos to
find patristic support for Iconoclasm. In 821 the new Emperor Michael II appointed Antony patriarch, disappointing the Stoudites, who were hoping that icons would be restored. When the patriarch of
Antioch crowned Thomas the Slav rival emperor, Antony had him excommunicated in
822. The iconodule historians record that Antony was stricken with a wasting
disease as divine punishment for his participation in Iconoclast councils. The
patriarch died early in 837 and was later anathematized in the Orthodox synodika.
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