06 — Andrew and the Monothelite Episode

The hardest chapter of the life, reported here from the sources and not glossed: in 712, under the usurper Philippikos Bardanes, Andrew subscribed to a synod at Constantinople that repudiated the Sixth Ecumenical Council and reinstated Monothelitism — and then, when Philippikos fell the next year, returned to Orthodoxy. This section presents the episode honestly, names the disputed question of his motive, and considers his rehabilitation.

This is the collection’s flagged section. It does for Andrew’s biography what METHODOLOGY §4 requires for sensitive topics: it states the attested fact, names the positions on the contested question of motive (duress versus conviction), and reports the return to Orthodoxy — without sensationalism and without suppression.

Files

File	Description
the-synod-of-712.md	The synod of 712 under Philippikos Bardanes; the repudiation of the Sixth Council; Andrew’s subscription; the contested question of his motive
repentance-and-rehabilitation.md	The fall of Philippikos and the return to Orthodoxy; the rehabilitation; the relation of the episode to the Great Canon’s theme of return

See Also

• The Great Canon — the hymn of return written by a man who had something to return from
• Foundations: Damascus to Constantinople — the Sixth Council Andrew had earlier attended as a deacon
• Orthodoxy: The Ecumenical Councils — the Sixth Council and the Monothelite controversy
• St. Maximus the Confessor — the confessor whose Dyothelite cause the 712 synod repudiated