Sergius I of Constantinople

Sergios I. was 610-638 Patriarch of Constantinople Opel.

On April 18 610, the still young deacon Syrian descent of the clergy of Hagia Sophia was elected Patriarch of Constantinople Opel. During caused by the attacks of the Persian Sassanids and the Avars outer oppression of the Eastern Roman Empire, the Patriarch Sergios emerges as an advisor to the Emperor Heraclius. This is in particular to appoint during the siege of Constantinople Opel 626 its performance. Due to the external threats of the empire sought Sergios understanding with the adherents of Monophysitism to the internal political tensions that have long weakened the kingdom to end. To this end he formulated in collaboration with Theodore of Paran monenergetische a compromise formula and reached on this basis, 633 a union with the Monophysites. These same compromise formula that had to be modified in protest of 633 Sophronius of Jerusalem on, was the basis for the Ekthesis and marks the beginning of the Monothelitism. The teachings of Sergios were accepted by Pope Honorius I., which decades later led at the Third Council of Constantinople Opel to the imposition of the anathema on Honorius because of " yielding to heresy ." The doctrine of Sergios was sentenced on the same council as heresy, leading to a significantly more negative assessment of his work in the sources.