March 520-535 A.D. Epiphanius—Constantinople’s 53rd; Installed under orthodox Emperor Justin I
March 520-535 A.D. Epiphanius—Constantinople’s 53 rd ; Installed under orthodox Emperor Justin I; Military Generals Suppress Pagan Books, Images, & Idols; Imprison Pagans; Elected by Consent of Bishops, Monks, & People; Episcopal Elections Regulated; Reaffirms Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus & Chalcedon; Emperor Justin I’s Rigors Annoying Italy’s Theodoric the Great, an Ostrogothic King & Arian Epiphanius of Constantinople From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Epiphanius (died June 5, 535) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from February 25, 520 to June 5, 535, succeeding John II Cappadocia . Biography The Byzantine Empire was now rising to great splendour through the victories of its generals, Belisarius and Narses . Idolatry was universally suppressed, pagan books were burnt and images destroyed, the profess...