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s52 JOANNE S. JOANNES.
25. CNAaNUS. [CANANUS.] wanting to lead to the suspicion that its presence'
26. CANTACUZINUS. [JOANNES V., emperor in the Greek epistles is owing to the mistake of
See above.] some transcriber, who has confounded this John: 27. CAPPADOX, or the CAPPADOCIAN (1). Johl the Cappadocian with the subject of the next arthe Cappadocian was made patriarch of Constanti- ticle. It is certainly remarkable that the title, if
nople (he was the second patriarch of the name of assumed, should have incurred no rebuke from the.
John, Chrysostom being John I,) A. D. 517 or 518, jealousy of the popes, not to speak of the other
a short time before the death of the aged emperor patriarchs equal in dignity to John; or that. if
Anastasius. Of his previous history and opinions once assumed, it should have been dropped again,
we have little or no information, except that he which it must have been, since the employment of
was, before his election to the patriarchate, a pres- it by the younger John of Cappadocia, many years:
byter and syncellus of Constantinople. Subsequent after, was violently opposed by pope Gregory I. as
events rather indicate that his original leaning an unauthorized assumption. [JOANNES CAPPAwas to the opponents of the Council of Chalcedon: DOX, 2.] We may conjecture, perhaps, that it was
but he had either too little firmness or too little assumed by the patriarchs of Constantinople withprinciple to follow out steadily the inclination of out opposition. from their fellow-prelates in the.
his own mind, but appears to have been in a East during the schism of the Eastern and Western
great degree the tool of others. On the death churches, and quietly dropped on the termination
of Anastasius and the accession of Justin I. the of the schism, that it might not prevent the reorthodox party among the inhabitants of Constan- establishment of friendly relations. (Theophanes,
tinople raised a tumult, and compelled John to Clsronog. pp. 140 —142, ed. Paris, pp. 112, 113,
anathematize Severus of Antioch, and to insert in ed. Venice, pp. 253-256, ed. Bonn; Cave, Hist.
the diptychs the names of the fathers of the Council Litt. vol. i. p. 503; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xi. p. 99.)
of Chalcedon, and restore to them those of the pa- 28. CAPPADOX, or the CAPPADOCIAN (2), patri —
triarchs Euphemius and Macedonius. These dip- arch of Constantinople, known by the surname
tychs were two tables of ecclesiastical dignitaries, NESTEIUTA (V7nTeV'T7E-), or JEJUNATOR, the
one containing those who were living, and the other FASTER. He is Joannes IV. in the list of the
those who had died, in the peace andecommunion of patriarchs of Constantinople. He was a deacon of
the church, so that insertion was a virtual declaration the great church at Constantinople, and succeeded,
of orthodoxy; erasure, of heresy or schism. These Eiutychius [EUTYCHIUS] in the patriarchate A. D.
measures, extorted in the first instance by popular 582, in the reign of the emperor Tiberius II. In
violence, were afterwards sanctioned by a synod of a council held at Constantinople A. D. 589, for the
forty bishops. In A. D. 519 John, at the'desire examination of certain charges against Gregory,
and almost at the command of the emperor Justin, patriarch of Antioch [GREGORIUS, ecclesiastical and
sought a reconciliation with the Western church, literary, No. 5; EVAGRIUS, No. 3], John assumed
from which, during the reign of Anastasius, the the title of universal patriarch (oeKovUecvKOs 7raTpLEastern churches had been disunited.:John ac- a'pXs), or perhaps resumed it after it had fallen
cepted the conditions of pope Hormisdas, and into disuse. [See above, No. 27.] Upon the inanathematized the opponents of the Council of telligence of this reaching the pope, Pelagius II.,
Chalcedon, erasing from the diptychs the names of he protested against it most loudly, and annulled
Acacius, Euphemius, and Macedonius, three of his the acts of the council as informal. A letter written
predecessors, and inserting those of popes Leo I. in the most vehement manner by Pelagius to the
and Hormisdashimself. Hormisdas, onthis, wrote Eastern bishops who had been present in the
a congratulatory letter to John, exhorting him to council, appears among his Epistolae in the Conseek to bring about the reconciliation of the pa- cilia (Ep. viii. vol. v. col. 948, ed. Labbe, vol. ix.
triarchs of Antioch and Alexandria to the orthodox col. 900, ed. Mansi); but some doubt has been
church. John the Cappadocian died about the be- cast on its genuineness. Gregory I., or the Great,
ginning or middle of the year 520, as appears by who (in A. D. 590) succeeded Pelagius, was
a letter of Hormisdas to his successor, Epiphanius. equally earnest in his opposition, and wrote to
John the Cappadocian wrote several letters or the emperor Maurice and to the patriarchs of Alexother papers, a few of which are still extant. Two andria and Antioch, and to John himself, to protest
short letters ('E7rLe0'ToAa), one to Joannes or John, against it. (Gregorius Papa, Epistolae, lib. iv. ep.
patriarch of'Jerusalem, and one to Epiphanius, 32, 36, 38, 39, apud Concilia, vol. v. col. 1181,
bishop of Tyre, are printed in Greek, with a Latin &c., ed. Labbe, vol. x. col. 1206, &c., ed. Mansi.)
version, in the Concilia, among the documents re- John, however,' retained the title probably till
lating to the Council of Constantinople in A.D. his death (about A. D. 596); and far from being
536. (Vol. v. col. 185., ed. Labbe, vol. viii. col. odious to the Greek Christians, was and is re1065-1067, ed. Mansi.) Four Relationes or Li- verenced by them as a saint.
belli are extant only in a Latin version among the John of Cappadocia wrote: 1.'AKohov0ta cKal
Epistolae of pope Hormisdas in the. Concilia. (Vol. rd e'rl. dt O orl eoY yoovtECwv ev-v'a'ys7o'a, Conseiv. col.. 1472, 1486, 1491, 1521, ed. Labbe; vol. quentia et Ordo erga eos qui peccata confitentur
viii. col. 436, 451, 457, 488, ed. Mansi.)' observanda; called by Cave Libellus Poenitenti-; It is remarkable that in the two short Greek alis, and by Allatius, Praxis Graecis praescripta in
letters addressed to Eastern prelates, John takes confessione peragenda. This work, there is every
the title of o&iKeUwLevLKs 7rarpLapX%7l, oecumenical, reason to conclude, has been much interpolated:
or universal patriarch, and is supposed to be the and Oudin (De Scriptor. Eccles. vol. i. col. 1473,
first that assumed this ambitious designation. It seq.) affirms is altogether' the production of a later
is remarkable, however, that in those pieces of his, age. It is given by Morinus in the Appendix
which were addressed' to pope Hormisdas, and (pp. 77-90) to his work, Commentarius Historicus
which are extant only in the Latin version, the de Disciplina in Administratione Sacramenti Poenititle does not appear; and circumstances are not tentide, fol. Paris, 1651. 2. adyos 7rpos T'Y pEhA