Synodikon of Orthodoxy

The Synodikon is a liturgical text, not a narrative. It opens with a thanksgiving for the end of the attack on the images, says that deliverance has come a second time after “thirty years”, proclaims this to be the faith of the apostles, of the fathers and of the orthodox, wishes eternal memory to the defenders of the images and pronounces anathema on those who rejected them, by name.

Later generations added to it, and the translator’s preface says that the original text can probably not be recovered exactly. The form translated here, from a manuscript of the early twelfth century, already commemorates patriarchs of the later ninth and tenth centuries, Ignatius of Constantinople and Photius side by side. The longer form printed in the modern service books, given in the second link on an unofficial Orthodox site in a translation whose author is not named there, also condemns teachings unknown in 843. It is evidence for what the church of Constantinople chose to remember, and to go on remembering each year, about the Triumph of Orthodoxy.