Our Father Among the Saints Tarasius, Archbishop of Constantinople.
Saint Tarasius was the son of one of the foremost princes in Constantinople, and the uncle of Saint Photius the Great, and was originally a consul and first among the Emperor’s private counsellors. Then, in 784, he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople by the Sovereigns Irene and her son Constantine Porphyrogenitus. He convoked the Seventh Ecumenical Council that upheld the holy icons, and became the boast of the Church and a light to the clergy. He reposed in 806.
The above account is taken from the Great Horologion,
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