The Council of Chalcedon, convened in 451, had far-reaching repercussions for the cohesion of Eastern Christianity, fragmenting the Byzantine Empire between dyophysite and monophysite factions. This theological and political schism provoked significant unrest, particularly in the empire’s eastern provinces. In an attempt to avert a deeper rupture, Emperor Zeno issued the Henotikon in 482—a unifying…
At the synodos endemousa of 536, alongside the deposed bishops of Constantinople (Anthimos), Antioch (Severos), and Apamea (Petros), a Syrian monk named Zʿura (Gr. Zooras) was also condemned. The Chalcedonian monks, led by Marianos, archimandrite of the Dalmatou Monastery, emphasised in their petitions the close association of Zʿura with Severos and Petros, portraying them as…
This paper investigates the reception and creative adaptation of Byzantine Rite in twelfth-century Cilician Armenia through the lens of The Explanation of the Divine Liturgy by Nerses of Lambron (1153–1198), Archbishop of Tarsus. As a leading ecclesiastical figure during the Armenian Kingdom’s close interactions with Byzantium, Nerses exemplifies a phase of deliberate theological engagement with…