PHOTIUS

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• PHOTIUS (noun)
  The noun PHOTIUS has 1 sense:

1. Patriarch of Constantinople and saint of the Greek Orthodox Church; was condemned by the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 869 but was reinstated by a later pope

  Familiarity information: PHOTIUS used as a noun is very rare.

• PHOTIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Patriarch of Constantinople and saint of the Greek Orthodox Church; was condemned by the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 869 but was reinstated by a later pope

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

patriarch (title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem))