Editing Flavian of Constantinople (section)

== Aftermath ==
[[Pope Leo I]], whose legates had been ignored at the council, protested, first calling the council a "robber synod", and declared its decisions void.

After Theodosius II died in 450, his sister Pulcheria returned to power, marrying the officer [[Marcian]], who became Emperor. The new Imperial couple had Flavian's remains brought to Constantinople<ref name=oca/> in a way that, in the words of a chronicler, more resembled "a triumph... than a funeral procession". The [[Council of Chalcedon]], called in 451, condemned Eutyches, confirmed Pope Leo's ''Tome'' (letter 28)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3604028.htm |author=Pope Leo I |author-link=Pope Leo I |title=Letter 28 - The Tome |access-date=18 February 2011 |publisher=[[New Advent]]}}</ref> and canonised Flavian as a [[martyr]].

In the Catholic Church St. Flavian is commemorated on 18 February, the date assigned to him in the [[Roman Martyrology]]. [[Flavian of Ricina]] is sometimes identified with him.<ref name="santiebeati">{{Cite web|url=https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/91718|title=San Flaviano di Ricina|website=Santiebeati.it}}</ref><ref>Among the documents which touch on the career of Flavian are the reply of [[Peter Chrysologus]], [[Bishop of Ravenna|archbishop of Ravenna]], to a circular appeal of [[Eutyches]], and various letters of [[Theodoret]]. [[Pope Leo I]] wrote Flavian a beautiful letter before hearing that he was dead.</ref>