Editing Persecution of Christians (section)

==== Heraclian period ====
[[Callinicus I of Constantinople|Callinicus I]], initially a priest and ''skeuophylax'' in the {{interlanguage link|Church of the Theotokos of Blachernae|ka|მოსკოვის ვლაქერნის ღვთისმშობლის ხატის ეკლესია|ru|Церковь Влахернской иконы Божией Матери в Кузьминках}}, became patriarch of Constantinople in 693 or 694.<ref name=":15">{{cite web |editor1-last=Kazhdan |editor1-first=Alexander P. |editor1-link=Alexander Kazhdan |editor2-last=Talbot |editor2-first=Alice-Mary |editor2-link=Alice-Mary Talbot |year=1998 |title=Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database |url=https://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/resources/hagiography/hagiointro.pdf |website=doaks.org |location=Dumbarton Oaks |publisher=[[Harvard University]] |access-date=11 April 2022}}</ref>{{rp|58–59}} Having refused to consent to the demolition of a chapel in the [[Great Palace of Constantinople|Great Palace]], the ''Theotokos ton Metropolitou'', and having possibly been involved in the deposition and exile of [[Justinian II]] ({{Reign|685|695|705|711}}), an allegation denied by the ''Synaxarion of Constantinople'', he was himself exiled to Rome on the return of Justinian to power in 705.<ref name=":15" />{{rp|58–59}} The emperor had Callinicus [[immured]].<ref name=":15" />{{rp|58–59}} He is said to have survived forty days when the wall was opened to check his condition, though he died four days later.<ref name=":15" />{{rp|58–59}}