The life of St Atticus of Constantinople
Though not a man of formal higher learning, his extraordinary memory, his energy, and the force of his preaching brought him wide notice, and in 406, under the Emperor Arcadius, he was elected patriarch of the city. He had earlier taken a part in the events that led to John Chrysostom's removal from that very see, a choice that later cost the Constantinopolitan church dearly, as Chrysostom's exile and death left the church there divided for years afterward.
As patriarch himself, Atticus governed for about twenty years with a reputation for wisdom and restraint, opposing Pelagian teaching and other errors of his day, and rebuilding a church on the site later occupied by the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia. In time he took the step of formally restoring Chrysostom's name to the church's official commemorations, an act that corrected the very injustice he had once had a hand in and helped heal the division it had caused. Among those he formed during his years as patriarch was his own secretary, Proclus, who would in time succeed to the same office himself. Atticus died on the tenth of October, 425.
