Photios or St Photios?

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Does the Catholic Church have Photios of Constantinople as a saint?

I was told by an Orthodox that before 1054, Rome and the Orthodox must accept and recognise eachothers Saints,so its wrong for the Catholics not to recognise Photius.
 
Considering he was a central figure in the filioque issue, and has a schism named after him, I would say the western Church does not recognize his sanctity.
 
Generally no, but I once encountered an Eastern Catholic who called him St. Photios. I don’t know if any Eastern Catholic Church recognizes him as a saint in any official way, though.

The schism of 1054 really just hardened and made official a gradual separation between East and West that had been underway throughout the Middle Ages, with Photios and his schism (later healed) being a big step in that history (the separation would also continue to grow and harden further during the rest of the Middle Ages and early modern times). Also recall that formal Papal canonization did not evolve until the second millennium, so earlier saints were saints merely through popular acclamation, which may not be universal throughout the Church, and, I think, certainly was very far from universal in the case of Photios. Some of these earlier saints (e.g. St. Olaf Haraldsson, sometimes considered the last common Catholic-Orthodox saint, or St. Bede, the great Old English historian) were later officially canonized after having been venerated for centuries.
 
Photius was a Eastern Patriarch of Constantinople. Whether Western Catholics recognize him is probably at the discernment of historians/theologians who study Church history.
 
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