Holiday / observanceJanuary 19

Mark of Ephesus

Christian feast day: Mark of Ephesus (Eastern Orthodox Church)

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January 19
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Legacy Icon of Saint Mark of Ephesus The Orthodox Church considers Mark of Ephesus a saint , calling him, together with Photius the Great and Gregory Palamas , a Pillar of Orthodoxy . [ 1 ] Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain , in his service to the saint, called him "the Atlas of Orthodoxy". [ 2 ] His feast day is January 19 , [ 3 ] the day his relics were moved to the monastery of Lazarus in Galata. [ 4 ]

Mark of Ephesus was a hesychast theologian of the late Palaiologan period of the Byzantine Empire who became famous for his rejection of the Council of Ferrara–Florence (1438–1439). As a monk in Constantinople, Mark was a prolific hymnographer and a follower of Gregory Palamas' theological views. As a theologian and a scholar, he was instrumental in the preparations for the Council of Ferrara–Florence, and as Metropolitan of Ephesus and delegate for the Patriarch of Alexandria,

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