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Orationes (Λόγοι) · Germanus I of Constantinople · c. 700-740 (patriarch 715-730) · homily

Greek · domain: hymnography · researched 2026-11-13

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

PG 98's contents list, under 'S. GERMANUS ARCHIEPISCOPUS CP.', includes 'Orationes' alongside De synodis et haeresibus, the dogmatic letters, the 'Rerum ecclesiasticarum contemplatio' and the 'Hymnus in sanctam Dei Genitricem': https://archive.org/download/patrologia-graeca_202105/98.pdf. The homilies in the volume are headed In vivificam crucem, In Dominici corporis sepulturam, In Praesentationem SS. Deiparae I-II, In Annuntiationem, In Dormitionem B. Mariae I-II. English: PPS 18 (Daley, 1998) translates the two Dormition homilies; PPS 35 (Cunningham, 2008) translates the two Presentation homilies, the Annunciation homily and the homily on the Consecration of the Theotokos church. The Cross and Burial homilies have no located English translation. HOLLIS Primo 'Germanus of Constantinople homilies' returns only Italian 'Omelie mariologiche' and the English anthologies (checked 2026-11-13).

Germanus is usually known in English only through the liturgical commentary (Meyendorff 1984, included above as a control - it is the one work of his that is fully translated). His festal homilies outside the Marian feasts, notably the two on the Cross and the Burial of Christ, remain untranslated.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies · Popular Patristics 18 · Brian E. Daley · 1998
Wider than Heaven: Eighth-Century Homilies on the Mother of God · Popular Patristics 35 · Mary B. Cunningham · 2008
On the Divine Liturgy (Historia Ecclesiastica) · Popular Patristics 8 · Paul Meyendorff · 1984

Electronic text

Source and licence
other · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, 1860); Internet Archive scan
patrologia-graeca_202105/98.pdf (PG 98)

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Germanus I of Constantinople Homilies — 7 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Germanos II, patriarch of Constantinople (1223 -1240), select sermons
Germanos II, Patriarch of Constantinople, 1175?-1240 · 2024 · eng
Germanos II, Patriarch of Constantinople, 1175?-1240. "Germanos II, patriarch of Constantinople (1223 -1240), select sermons." Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2024. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158022511703941
Omelie mariologiche
Germanus I, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople, -approximately 733 · 1985 · ita
Germanus I, Saint, Patriarch of Constantinople, -approximately 733. "Omelie mariologiche." Roma : Città nuova, 1985. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990015862730203941
On the dormition of Mary : early patristic homilies
· 1998 · eng
"On the dormition of Mary : early patristic homilies." Crestwood, NY : St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990078044870203941
Germanou II, Kyriakodromion : ētoi patriarchikon homiliarion II kata tous en parisiois kōdikas
Xēntaras, Zacharias K · 1999 · gre
Xēntaras, Zacharias K. "Germanou II, Kyriakodromion : ētoi patriarchikon homiliarion II kata tous en parisiois kōdikas." [S.l.] : Roes ; Z.K. Xēntaras, c1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990101322160203941
Mary and the fathers of the church : the Blessed Virgin Mary in patristic thought
Gambero, Luigi, 1930- · 1999 · eng
Gambero, Luigi, 1930-. "Mary and the fathers of the church : the Blessed Virgin Mary in patristic thought." San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990080971640203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Homilies” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-germanos-i-orationes