Ephesus
Metropolitan of Ephesus · c. 65 (Timothy, set over Ephesus by Paul's letters)
Paul taught in the hall of Tyrannus, Timothy received the letters that ordered a church, and the Johannine tradition made Ephesus its city — host of the third ecumenical council and metropolitan of Asia. Under Constantinople's shadow it remained a great see until the medieval decline of the city itself.
Continues today as a metropolis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, titular since the city emptied.
The bishops
13 holders in the record.
Of the 12 links in this chain, 10 are inferred from the numbering — the register numbers the two holders consecutively and no source says one followed the other; 2 are named by no register at all: nothing joins those two rows. Each holder below says which it is.
- Saint Timothy #1 · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Onesimus #2 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops · bishops in between are missing
- Gaius of Ephesus #4 · link unrecorded · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Polycrates of Ephesus #5 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Apollonius of Ephesus #6 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Heraclides of Ephesus #7 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Memnon of Ephesus #8 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Bassianus #9 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Stephen of Ephesus #10 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- John of Ephesus #11 · link unrecorded · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Hypatius of Ephesus #12 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Abraham of Ephesus #13 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops
- Theodosios III #14 · link inferred · № Wikipedia’s list of bishops