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Fourth Council of Constantinople
The The Fourth Council of Constantinople was an ecumenical council
which met from October 5, 869 to February 28, 870.
It was called by Emperor Basil I the Macedonian and Pope Adrian II. It deposed and condemned Photius as patriarch and, of the four Eastern patriarchates, ranked Constantinople before Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.
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