Petros 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates654 (taq) / 666 (ob.)
PmbZ No.5941
Variant NamesPetrus;
patriarch Peter
ReligionChristian;
Monothelete
LocationsConstantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople;
Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)
OccupationBishop;
Priest
TitlesArchbishop, Constantinople (office);
Bishop, Constantinople (office);
Patriarch, Constantinople (office);
Priest, Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) (office)
Textual SourcesActa in Primo Exilio seu Dialogus Maximi cum Theodosio ep. Caesareae in Bithynia, PG 90. 136-169 (theology);
Constantinople, Third Council of (Sixth Ecumenical Council), ed. R. Riedinger, Concilium Universale Constantinopolitanum Tertium, ACO II.2. 1 (Berlin, 1990-1992); also cited from Mansi XI passim (conciliar);
Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le liber pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92); re-issued with 3rd vol. by C. Vogel, (Paris, 1955-57) (chronicle);
Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history);
Nicephorus, Chronographikon Suntomon, ed. C. de Boor, Nicephori Archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani Opuscula Historica (Leipzig, 1880), pp. 79-135;
Nikaia, Second Council of (Seventh Ecumenical Council, a. 787) (Mansi XII-XIII) (conciliar);
Paulus Diaconus, Historia Gentis Langobardorum, ed. L. Bethmann and G. Waitz, MGH, Scr. Rer. Lang., pp. 12-187; also in MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 48, pp. 49-242 (history);
Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle);
Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history)

Petros 2 was priest of Hagia Sophia, successor of Pyrrhos 1 in 654 as patriarch of Constantinople; he remained patriarch for twelve years: Nic., Chron., p. 118, 62 (two years seven months; perhaps the number ten has been omitted), Theoph. AM 6145 (Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπίσκοπος Πέτρος ἔτη ιβ'), Theoph. AM 6156 (twelve years), Zon. XIV 19. 26. His successor was Thomas 2. He was patriarch from 654 to 666. Patriarcha Constantinopolitanus, he sent his synodical letter to pope Eugenius I (Eugenios 5); the letter failed to make explicit his position over the monotheletist and monoenergist disputes and so was not accepted at Rome: Lib. Pont. 77. 2. Patriarch of Constantinople; on 24 August 656, he sent the bishop of Kaisareia, Theodosios 20, to visit Maximus the Confessor (Maximos 10) in exile in Bizye in Thrace: Acta Primi Exilii 137A.

He was one of the former patriarchs of Constantinople named at the Third Council of Constantinople in 680 and 681 as a monothelete: Riedinger II 2. 20-22 (= Mansi XI 213) (first session), Riedinger II 2. 110, 132 (= Mansi XI 276, 292) (fourth session), Riedinger II 2. 230 (= Mansi XI 357) (eighth session, named with approval by Makarios 1; Πέτρος τε ὁ παναγιώτατος οἰκουμενικὸς πατριάρχης), Riedinger II 2. 578-582 (= Mansi XI 556) (thirteenth session), Riedinger II 2. 772 (= Mansi XI 636) (eighteenth session), Riedinger II 2. 888 (= Mansi XI 688) (definition of the faith), cf. Zon. XIV 21. 9 (anathematised). He wrote to pope Vitalian (Bitalianos 3) a letter professing the doctrine of One Will: Riedinger II 2. 108 (= Mansi XI 276). This letter was contained in a register of letters by Petros 2 kept in the patriarchal chartophylakion at Constantinople; it was brought from there to the Council by Georgios 33: Riedinger II 2. 586 (= Mansi XI 560) (the thirteenth session). The Council heard a reading from it at this session: Riedinger II 2. 610 (= Mansi XI 572). He was included in the anathemata at the end of the sixteenth session: Riedinger II 2. 702, line 20 (= Mansi XI 621). A former patriarch, named as a monothelete in the imperial edict issued after the Council of Constantinople: Riedinger II 2. 834, line 15, 852, line 16 (= Mansi XI 700, 709). He was one of those condemned at the Council of Constantinople and his name was removed from the diptychs: Lib. Pont. 81. 14, 82. 2. Named as one of the leaders of the monothelete heresy condemned at the Council of Constantinople: Paul. Diac., Hist. Lang. VI 4. He is recorded at the Second Council of Nikaia (the Seventh Ecumenical Council) among the former monothelete patriarchs of Constantinople; he died fifteen years before the Third Council of Constantinople: Mansi XII 1047, cf. 1142 (anathematised at Constantinople).

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