Patriarch John VIII of Constantinople

John VIII of Constantinople

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1064 to 1075

John VIII of Constantinople, a native of Trebizond, was a Byzantine intellectual, jurist, and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1064 to 1075. He was the uncle of John Xiphilinus, the Epimator. He is considered "an innovator in the field of the methodology of…