Patriarch Filotei I Kokkinos and the Western Church
Patriarch Filotei I Kokkinos and the Western Church

Summary/Abstract: Patriarch Philotheus I was one of the greatest Byzantine names and one of the brightest, through its multiple forms in which he excelled. Man with a thorough and extensive theological and secular culture, author of works as diverse and extensive as valuable, living in prayer and holiness, he was a bishop with joint responsibility and with an unmatched authority. His action and philosophical thinking, prayer and hesychastic contemplation, his energy to impose the clericals morality, his Orthodox conscience and his Hellenism, his intransigence toward Churches union only for political reasons, the visionary man imposing the Byzantine Church as a force truly ecumenical in order to save the Empire, all but also others met in the one who was Philotheus I Kokkkinos.

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