Metrophanes of Byzantium
Bishop of Byzantium from 306 to 314
b. 3rd century · d. 326
26th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
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.
Related people
- Dometius of Byzantium child of · traditional
- Probus sibling of · traditional
- Probus succeeded · inferred
- Alexander of Constantinople preceded · inferred
Commemorated
Places
- Byzantium birth
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani