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Ecumenical Patriarch Konstantinos II

Ecumenical Patriarch Konstantinos II (710-1 October 767) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 754 to 766, succeeding Ecumenical Patriarch Anastasios and preceding Ecumenical Patriarch Niketas I.

Biography[]

Konstantinos became the Patriarch of Constantinople in 754, and he supported the plot of Constantine Podopagouros' plot against Emperor Constantine V of Byzantium in 766. He was stripped of his office, and in 767 he was paraded through the Hippodrome of Constantinople and beheaded.

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