The council (or synod) of Constantinople that took place in the

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on 20 July 518 affirmed the

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of 451 and denounced its opponents. It was held by the Patriarch

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in response to the pleas of the people following the accession of the Emperor

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. This was a decisive shift in the

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attitude of the

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. An allegedly eyewitness account of the council was incorporated into the ''Acts'' of the council of Constantinople of 536 under the title "How the Synods Were Proclaimed in the Church" in the fifth session., uses the title ''Acclamations of the People'', based on

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's Latin title ''Acclamationes populi et allocutiones episcoporum''.

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*{{cite book , first=Philip Michael , last=Forness , chapter=Representing Lay Involvement in the Christological Controversies: The ''Acclamations of the People'' and the Synod of Constantinople (518) , title=Konzilien und kanonisches Recht in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter: Aspekte konziliarer Entscheidungsfindung , publisher=De Gruyter , year=2020 , pages=57–80 , doi=10.1515/9783110684377-007 , editor1=Wolfram Brandes , editor2=Alexandra Hasse-Ungeheuer , editor3=Hartmut Leppin 518 518

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...