Constantinople

Also known as: Byzantium, Istanbul
Description: Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire; site of the celebrated Studios monastery where St. Plato and Theodore the Studite presided
Coordinates: 41.0082, 28.9784

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Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Site of the celebrated Studios monastery where St. Plato and Theodore the Studite presided, devoting themselves to sacred Letters and fighting Iconoclasm.

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers — A celebrated monastery at Constantinople named Studios, where Theodore the Studite occupied his disciples in copying sacred Letters and fought the Iconoclast emperors
"At Constantinople there was once a celebrated monastery which took the name of Studios from its founder"

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

Verse 14: Let There Be Lights in the Firmament — Pope Innocent III's letter to the Emperor of Constantinople comparing the two great luminaries to pontifical authority and royal power
"Pope Innocent III, writing to the Emperor of Constantinople, book I of the Decretals, title 33, chapter Solitae"