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Date c. 801 - c. 900
Participants Eastern Orthodoxy • Roman Catholicism
Context Byzantine Empire

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Photius, lead seal; in the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
Saint Photius
patriarch of Constantinople
Nicholas I, Saint
Saint Nicholas I
pope
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Anastasius the Librarian
antipope
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Theognostos
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Sergius II
patriarch of Constantinople