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Our Father Among father among the Saints saints '''Mark of Ephesus''' (Evgenikos), Pillar of Orthodoxy, was famous for his courageous defense of Orthodoxy at the [[Council of Florence]] (1439 A.D.) in spite of the [[John VIII Palaeologus|emperor]] and the [[Eugenius IV of Rome|pope of Rome]]. He held Rome to be in [[schism]] and [[heresy]] for its acceptance of the [[Filioque|''Filioque'' clause]] added to the [[Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed]] and for the claims of the [[papacy]] to universal jurisdiction over the [[Church]], and was thus the only Eastern [[bishop]] to refuse to sign the decrees of the council.
He died peacefully in the year 1452 A.D. On his death bed, Mark implored Gregory, his disciple, and later Patriarch [[Gennadius II (Scholarius) of Constantinople|Gennadius]], to be careful of the snares of the West and to defend Orthodoxy.
== Quotes ==
"It is impossible to recall peace without dissolving the cause of the schism—the primacy of the Pope exhalting himself equal to God." [http://constans_wright.tripod.com/romans.html]