Euthymius I Syncellus was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from February 907 to 15 May 912. A monk since his youth, he became spiritual father of the future emperor Leo VI the Wise, and was
Consecration of Euthymius I as Patriarch of Constantinople, miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes.
Emperor Alexander dismisses Euthymius I, miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes.
Alexander was briefly Byzantine emperor from 912 to 913, and the third emperor of the Macedonian dynasty.
Euthymius I of Constantinople
…Leo VI, in 907 he was appointed to the patriarchate and held the post until his deposition shortly before or after Leo VI's death in 912. Life Emperor Alexander dismisses Euthymius I, miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes. Euthymius was born in Seleucia in Isauria c. 834 and became a monk at an early age. According…
Mosaic of Emperor Alexander in Hagia Sophia. He wears a loros and holds the akakia in his right hand.
Emperor Alexander rebuffs the Bulgarian envoys, refusing to pay tribute.
On his deathbed, Alexander finally concedes power to his nephew Constantine VII.