Constantine II of Constantinople (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος, Kōnstantinos; died 7 October 767) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 754 to 766. He had been ecumenically proceeded by Patriarch Anastasius of Constantinople. He was a supporter of the first phase of Byzantine Iconoclasm and devoutly opposed to the creation of images,Claude Delaval Cobham, 2016 (originally published in 1911), The Patriarchs of Constantinople, Cambridge University Press, P. 82, "Anastasius (730–754), Constantine II (754–766) and Nicetas I (766–780), all of them elkovouáxot, were court-nominees" but he was deposed and jailed after the discovery of Constantine Podopagouros' plot against the Emperor Constantine VRuth Macrides (2010), History as Literature in Byzantium - Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Ashgate Publishing. in June 766, in which the patriarch was later implicated.
On 7 October 767, Constantine II was paraded through the Hippodrome of Constantinople and finally beheaded. He was succeeded by Nicetas I of Constantinople.
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