A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

19. Of CYPRUS, the elder, patriarch of Constantinople from A. D. 678 to 683. He held for a time the sentiments of the Monothelites, but afterwards, at the council of Constantinople (A. D. 680), renounced them. He was anathematized after his death at the iconoclastic council of Constantinople under Constantine Copronymus, A. D. 753 or 754. (Theophan. Chronog. vol. i. pp. 544, 554, 660, ed. Bonn; Allatius, Ibid. p. 14; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xi. p. 151.)