Paul IV of Constantinople, known as Paul the New (; died December 784), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 780 to 784.J. M. Hussey (1986), The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, Clarendon Press, Oxford. He had once opposed the veneration of icons but urged the calling of an ecumenical council to address the iconoclast controversy. Later, he resigned and retired to a monastery due to old age and illness. He was succeeded by Tarasios of Constantinople,St. Tarasius, "In 784 when Paul IV Patriarch of Constantinople died Tarasios was an imperial secretary and a champion of the veneration of images". who was a lay administrator at the time.
Paul IV is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and his feast day is celebrated on 30 August.
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