Photius
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This inflamed east-west relations so much that in 867 AD, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople called the pope who approved it a "heretic who ravages the vineyard of the Lord".
From The Guardian
After several articles and brochures on Hippolytus and the question of the authorship of the Philosophumena, he turned to the study of Photius, patriarch of Constantinople, and the history of the Greek schism.
From Project Gutenberg
Photius praises the style of Hesychius, and credits him with being a veracious historian.
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He especially had at heart to make Constantinople submit; and his first step was to condemn and depose the patriarch Photius, in defiance of the emperor Michael.
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It may be said in answer, endless divisions have come out of the Church, from Arius to Photius, and from Photius to Luther.
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