Methodius MONACHUS
5. MONACHUS, lived in Constantinople during the middle and latter part of the thirteenth century. About this time the Byzantine capital was much disturbed by the coincident election of Josephus and Arsenius to the patriarchal see of Constantinople, each of them being proclaimed by his partisans as the sole legitimate patriarch.
Works
Συλλογὴ συνοπτική, Sylloga Compendiosa
On the coincident election of Josephus and Arsenius to the patriarchal see of Constantinople Methodius wrote a valuable treatise, entitled Συλλογὴ συνοπτική, Sylloga Compendiosa, showing that orthodox people ought not to secede from their spiritual leaders even in case their predecessor had been illegally deposed.
Editions
It was published by Leo Allatius in his Diatriba de Methodiis, with a Latin translation.M.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 275; Cave, Hist. Lit. p. 642, ed. Geneva.
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