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Photian, n. and a.|ˈfəʊʃən|
[f. Photius, the name of a ninth-century Patriarch of Constantinople + -ian.]
A. n. A follower or supporter of Photius.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Photius or the schism in which he took a part. Hence ˈPhotianism; ˈPhotianist a. and n.
1849D. Rock Church of our Fathers I. i. ii. 90 Not only the united or orthodox Greeks..but the Photians or separated Greeks, and the other sects in the East living apart, by schism and heresy, from Rome, entirely agree with her and the Latins upon Transubstantiation. 1850æ. McD. Dawson tr. J. M. de Maistre's The Pope iv. iii. 307 The Photian churches are preserved in the midst of Mahometanism, as an insect is preserved in amber. Ibid. x. 340 Among the Photians, on the contrary, as among all other Protestants, there is no unity. 1854J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks iii. ii. 183 The unhappy city..which had been successively the seat of Arianism, of Nestorianism, of Photianism. 1864in E. S. Purcell Life & Lett. A. P. de Lisle (1900) I. xv. 388 Photianism and Anglicanism are two forms of the same true Christian religion. 1907Catholic Encycl. II. 45/1 The mutual bitterness which was evinced in Constantinople by the contending parties of Photians and Anti-Photians was reflected here in Athens... Sabbas, who succeeded Anastasios, was likewise a Photian. 1948F. Dvornik Photian Schism i. i. 27 The Fathers had listened to the Photianist bishops Zachary and Theophilus. Ibid. ii. 46 The anti-Photianist Collection{ddd}contains all the documents against Photius and served the extreme Ignatians as an armoury in their struggle against the Photianists. 1967New Catholic Encycl. XI. 328/2 We have only..an extract in Greek, preserved in the anti-Photianist collection. Ibid., The Photian legend grew in the West, picturing the patriarch as the father of schism and the archenemy of papal primacy. |