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The Paschal Chronicle records that the Patriarch of Constantinople, Kyriakos, was buried in the church of the Holy *Apostles (S02422) at Constantinople in 606. Written in Greek at Constantinople, c. 630.

Evidence ID

E07990

Type of Evidence

Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)

Paschal Chronicle, s.a. 606

Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει τελευτᾷ Κυριακὸς πατριάρχης Κωνσταντινουπόλεως μηνὶ ὑπερβερεταίῳ, κατὰ Ῥωμαίους ὀκτωβρίῳ, κθ', ἡμέρᾳ ζ'. καὶ κηδεύεται τῇ τριακοστῇ τοῦ αὐτοῦ μηνός, ἡμέρᾳ πρώτῃ, καὶ ἀπετέθη τὸ αὐτοῦ λείψανον πρὸς συνήθειαν εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους Ἀποστόλους.

'In this year Cyriacus, patriarch of Constantinople died, in the month Hyperberetaeus, on October 29th according to the Romans, a Saturday. And his funeral was held on the 30th of the same month, a Sunday, and his body was laid to rest according to custom in the Holy Apostles.'


Text: Dindorf 1832, 697.
Translation: Whitby and Whitby 1989, 146-7.

Cult Places

Cult building - independent (church)

Non Liturgical Activity

Burial ad sanctos

Protagonists in Cult and Narratives

Ecclesiastics - bishops

Source

The Chronicon Paschale (paschal or Easter chronicle) is a chronicle compiled at Constantinople in the first half of the 7th century. It covers events from the creation of the world up to the anonymous author's own time. The Chronicle probably concluded with the year 630 (see Whitby and Whitby 1989, xi), though the surviving text breaks off slightly earlier, in the entry for 628. The traditional name for the Chronicle originates from its introductory section, which discusses methods for calculating the date of Easter. The Chronicle survives thanks to a single manuscript, Vatican, Gr. 1941 (10th c.), on which all other surviving manuscripts depend. The only critical edition remains that of Ludwig Dindorf (1832).

The chronicler uses multiple chronological systems to date events: Olympiads, consular years, indictions, and years from the Ascension, as well as using Roman, Greek, and sometimes Egyptian dates (see Whitby and Whitby 1989, x). Numerous literary sources are utilised for the period before the author's own time, including well-known historical sources such as Eusebius and John Malalas. We have not included entries for material in the
Paschal Chronicle which simply reproduces material in earlier sources already entered in our database.


Discussion

On the church of the Holy Apostles, see Janin 1969, 41-50.


Bibliography

Edition:
Dindorf, L., Chronicon Paschale (Bonn, 1832).

Translation:
Whitby, M., and Whitby, M., Chronicon Paschale 284-628 AD (Translated Texts for Historians 7; Liverpool, 1989).

Further reading:
Janin, R., La géographie ecclésiastique de l'empire byzantin. I: Les églises et les monastères de la ville de Constantinople. (2nd ed.; Paris, 1969).


Record Created By

David Lambert

Date of Entry

03/09/2020

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S02422All Apostlesοἱ ἁγίοι ἀποστόλοιCertain


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