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Eustratius of Constantinople

Eustratius or Eustratios (; 582–602) was a hagiographer, theologian and priest of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.

Eustratios was a native of Melitene. whose biography he wrote. It is a basically factual account, although not lacking in rhetorical flourish. It is an important source for the Second Council of Constantinople (553) and for Eutychius' exile in Amaseia (565–577).

In 602, Eustratios finished a biography of the Persian Christian saint Golinduch. He devotes special attention to the role of Bishop Domitian of Melitene in the diplomacy between the Byzantine Empire and the Persian Empire.

Eustratios also wrote a tract against belief in soul sleep entitled A Refutation of Those Who Say That the Souls of the Dead Are Not Active and Receive No Benefit from the Prayers and Sacrifices Made for Them to God. A Latin translation of this work De statu animarum post mortem was reprinted in 1841. It was written between 582 and 602, possibly in or about 593–594, when there arose in Constantinople a controversy over some miracles attributed to Euphemia.

Gregory the Great's Dialogues, composed around the same time, deal with similar themes as Eustratios' Refutation. Matthew Dal Santo hypothesises that the two men may have known each other in Constantinople.

References

References

  1. Oliver Nicholson, "Eustratius", in Oliver Nicholson (ed.), ''[[The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity]]'', Volume 1: A–I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), p. 569.
  2. He was a pupil of Patriarch [[Eutychius of Constantinople]] (552–565, 577–582),N. Constas, ''An Apology for the Cult of the Saints in Late Antiquity: Eustratius Presbyter of Constantinople'' (CPG 7522)
  3. Leo Allatius, ed., De Utriusque Ecclesiae Occidentalis atque Orientalis Perpetua in Dogmate de Purgatorio Consensu (Rome, 1655), 336–580
  4. by J.-P. Migne, Theologiae cursus completus, vol. 18 (Paris, 1841)
  5. He responds to arguments that the dead are "incapable of activity" (''anenergetoi'' and ''apraktoi''), by countering that the dead are even more active in death.Gouillard
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