Olympianus of Byzantium
Bishop of Byzantium from 187 to 198
b. 2nd century · d. 198
16th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Olympianus of Byzantium was the bishop of Byzantium for eleven years. He succeeded bishop Pertinax of Byzantium. In 196, Byzantium was conquered by Roman emperor Septimius Severus during his rivalry with Pescennius Niger. Septimius Severus took the right of metropolis from the city and made it part of the Heracleia. Byzantium remained a bishopric under Heracleia for more than a century.
Related people
- Pertinax of Byzantium succeeded · inferred
- Marcus I of Byzantium preceded · inferred
Places
- Byzantium death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani