Bishop of Byzantium from 306 to 314
b. 3rd century · d. 326
26th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Metrophanes of Byzantium was bishop of Byzantium from c. 306 to 314. He was, according to tradition, the 26th bishop and is the first bishop mentioned by contemporary sources. In fact, there is no contemporary mention of an organized Christian community in Byzantium before him.
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