John Scholasticus (died August 31, 577) was a patriarch of Constantinople from 565 to 577. He organized a compromise between the Chalcedonians and Monophysites in 567, and temporarily reunited the two sects in 571 until the Monophysites rejected the doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon once more later that year. He was also credited for methodical classification of the Canon law under fifty heads.
In 565Eutychius I of Constantinople was deposed, and John succeeded him.
For instance, the first title is: "Of the honour towards patriarchs ordained by the Canons." This is established by canons vii and vi of Nicaea, ii of Constantinople I, viii of Ephesus.
After he became patriarch, JohnIII enlarged his collection to sixty titles, and added to it eighty-seven chapters from the "Novellae" of Justinian.
Emperor John II (1118-1143) is shown on the left, with the Virgin Mary and infant Jesus in the centre, and John's wife Piroska of Hungary on the right.
Constantinople was one of the largest and richest urban centres in the Eastern Mediterranean during the late Roman Empire, mostly due to its strategic position commanding the trade routes between the Aegean and the Black Sea.
John Julius Norwich, Byzantium: The Apogee, Knopf, 1992.
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