Joannes41. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, 4. or Joannes VI. in the list of patriarchs
of that city. He was appointed patriarch by the Emperor Philippicus Bardanes, A. D. 712, on account of his agreement with that emperor in his
monothelite opinions, and in rejecting the authority of the sixth oecumenical (third
Constantinopolitan) council. Cyrus, the predecessor of Joannes, was deposed to make way for
him. According to Gave, Joannes was deposed not long after his elevation, in consequence
apparently of the deposition of his patron Philippicus, and the elevation of Artemius or
Anastasius II. Theophanes does not notice the fate of Joannes, but records the elevation of
his successor Germanus, metropolitan of Cyzicus, to the patriarchate of Constantinople, A. D. 715.
Works
Ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Κωνσταντῖνον τὸν ἁγιώτατον πάπαν
Ρώμης ʼαπολογετική,
Epistola ad Constantinum Sanctissimum
Papam Romanum. ApologeticaJoannes wrote Ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς Κωνσταντῖνον τὸν ἁγιώτατον
πάπαν Ρώμης ʼαπολογετική, Epistola ad Constantinum
Sanctissimum Papam Romanum. Apologetica, in which he defends certain transactions of
the reign of Philippicus.
Editions
This letter is published in the Concilia (vol. vi. col. 1407, ed.
Labbe; vol. xii. col. 196, ed. Mansi). It had previously been published in
the Auctarium Novum of Combéfis, vol. ii. p. 211.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl.
Graec. vol. xi. p. 152; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i.
p. 619.