John Scholasticus
Patriarch of Constantinople
Feast: 31 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
John Scholasticus, also called John of Antioch, was born at Sirimis near Antioch and was a lawyer before he was ordained. As a priest of the Church of Antioch he was sent as its representative to Constantinople under Justinian I, and in 565, when Eutychius was deposed, he became Patriarch of Constantinople as John III. He died in 577.
He is remembered above all for his collection of Church law. Between 540 and 560 he arranged the canons of the councils and of St. Basil under fifty subject headings, the first important collection ordered by subject rather than by date; as patriarch he enlarged it with laws from Justinian's Novellae, and it grew in time into the Nomocanon of Photius.
The miracles
The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe any miracles or a formal cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A patriarch of Constantinople who compiled one of the first great collections of Church law.
Connected on this site
- John Climacus Saint“579 – 649), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 6th–7th century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai.” — Wikipedia
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - John Scholasticus
- Wikidata Q1266328 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — John Scholasticus (CC BY-SA)
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