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The Fifth Council of Constantinople was a series of council
Ecumenical council

An ecumenical council is a conference of the bishops of the whole Christian Church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice....
s held in Constantinople in 1341, 1347 and 1351, which exonerated St. Gregory Palamas
Gregory Palamas

Saint Gregory Palamas was a monasticism of Mount Athos in Greece and later the Archbishop of Thessalonica known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm....
' hesychastic
Hesychasm

Hesychasm is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some other Eastern Churches of the Byzantine Rite, practised by the Hesychast ....
 theology and condemned the rationalistic philosophy of Barlaam of Calabria
Barlaam of Calabria

Barlaam of Seminara , or Barlaam of Calabria was a Greeks/Italian people scholar and clergyman of the 14th century. Humanist, philologist, and theologian, he is one of the representatives of Byzantine Renaissance humanism....
. The result of these councils is accepted as having the authority of an ecumenical council by Orthodox Christians who sometimes call it the Ninth Ecumenical Council. Principal supporters of the view that this series of councils comprises the Ninth Ecumenical Council include Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos)
Hierotheos (Vlachos)

Metropolitan Hierotheos is a Greek people theologian.Born in Ioannina, Greece, he graduated from the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki and was ordained deacon in 1971 and priest in 1972....
 of Nafpaktos, Fr.






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The Fifth Council of Constantinople was a series of council
Ecumenical council

An ecumenical council is a conference of the bishops of the whole Christian Church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice....
s held in Constantinople in 1341, 1347 and 1351, which exonerated St. Gregory Palamas
Gregory Palamas

Saint Gregory Palamas was a monasticism of Mount Athos in Greece and later the Archbishop of Thessalonica known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm....
' hesychastic
Hesychasm

Hesychasm is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some other Eastern Churches of the Byzantine Rite, practised by the Hesychast ....
 theology and condemned the rationalistic philosophy of Barlaam of Calabria
Barlaam of Calabria

Barlaam of Seminara , or Barlaam of Calabria was a Greeks/Italian people scholar and clergyman of the 14th century. Humanist, philologist, and theologian, he is one of the representatives of Byzantine Renaissance humanism....
. The result of these councils is accepted as having the authority of an ecumenical council by Orthodox Christians who sometimes call it the Ninth Ecumenical Council. Principal supporters of the view that this series of councils comprises the Ninth Ecumenical Council include Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos)
Hierotheos (Vlachos)

Metropolitan Hierotheos is a Greek people theologian.Born in Ioannina, Greece, he graduated from the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki and was ordained deacon in 1971 and priest in 1972....
 of Nafpaktos, Fr. John S. Romanides
John S. Romanides

John Savvas Romanides was a Eastern Orthodox Church priest, author and professor who, for a long time, represented the Greek Church to the World Council of Churches....
, and Fr. George Metallinos
George Metallinos

Protopresbyter Fr. George Metallinos is a Greek people theologian, priest, historian, author and professor .He was born in Corfu,Greece in 1940, where he also completed his Secondary Education....
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