November 6: Feast of Saint Paul the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinopletranslated

Today, the Church honors the memory of Bishop Dimitrianos of Chitra and Archbishop Pavlos of Constantinople. Saint Paul was born in Thessaloniki, at the beginning of the 4th century and was the secretary of the Patriarch of Constantinople, Alexander. When Alexander died in 377, Paul was elected Patriarch. The emperor Constantius, when he was informed about it, resented it, since he was a follower of the heresy of the Arians. When Constantius returned from Antioch to Constantinople, he removed Paul from the patriarchal throne and arbitrarily proclaimed the Martian Nicomedia Eusebius Patriarch. Then Saint Paul went to Rome. There he found Athanasius the Great, whom Constantius had removed from the Patriarchate of Alexandria.

After being informed of the events, Emperor Constans sent a letter to his brother Constantius, protesting his attitude. So Paul and Athanasius were reinstated.

Unfortunately after some time Konstas died. So Constantius ordered, from Antioch where he was, to remove Paul from the Patriarchal throne. In fact, he exiled him to Kukusso, Armenia.

One day he was celebrating the Divine Liturgy...