As a part of his policy of improving relations with the church in Rome, he pesuaded Empress Irene to convoke, together with Pope Adrian I, what came to be known as the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, over which he presided.
Later in his patriarchy, he suffered from criticism of his alleged tolerance of simony, and of his handling of the divorce of Irene's son Constantine VI. Under severe pressure from Theodore of Studios, he excommunicated the priest who had conducted Constantine's second marriage.
When Nicephorus I dethroned Irene as Byzantine emperor, Tarasius crowned Nicephorus as the next emperor.
His feast day is on February 25.
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Preceded by: Paul IV | List of Constantinople patriarchs |
Succeeded by: Saint Nicephorus |