Constantine II of Constantinople

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Constantine II was Patriarch of Constantinople from 754 until 766.

Constantine II was Bishop of Syleum in Pamphylia when he was elected to the throne of Saint Andrew in 754. Though an iconoclast himself, Constantine retained good relations with the iconophiles which earned him the enmity of Byzantine emperor Constantine V "Copronymus", an avid iconoclast.

Constantine II was exiled to the Prince's Islands in 766. After two years, he was brought back to Constantinople where he was defrocked, humiliated and finally beheaded on October 7, 768.