Constantine II bound and paraded through the Hippodrome of Constantinople on a donkey and later executed by beheading, 767. He was deposed and imprisoned after the discovery of Constantine Podopagouros' plot against Emperor Constantine V in June 766, in which the patriarch was later implicated.

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