By Dvornik
Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, has been for one thousand years denounced via the Western Church as an arch-heretic and arch-schismatic of the Church and whilst honored within the East as a saint, pupil and a version churchman. Dr Dvornik reports the complete historical past, reconsiders the entire arguments, reconstitutes the evidence, re-examines all of the witnesses and springs to the belief that during the Photian case the Churchmen, Canonists and historians of the West have been flawed, that Photius used to be certainly an exceptional churchman. within the moment a part of his publication Dr Dvornik examines the explanations for this miscarriage of justice.
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