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Photios I (/ˈfoʊʃəs/; Greek: Φώτιος Phōtios; c. 810 – c. 893) also spelled Photius or Fotios was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 867 and from 877 to 886.; He is recognized in the Eastern Orthodox churches as St. Photios the Great.Photios is widely regarded as the most powerful and influential Patriarch of Constantinople since John Chrysostom and as the most important intellectual of his time the leading light of the ninth-century renaissance.
