Philadelphus of Byzantium
bishop of Byzantium from 211 to 217
b. 2nd century · d. 217
18th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Philadelphus of Byzantium is referred to as the first bishop of Byzantium after the eight-year administration of the Church of Byzantium by a priest whose name has not been recorded. Philadelphus was bishop for six years.
Related people
- Marcus I of Byzantium succeeded · inferred
- Cyriacus I of Byzantium preceded · inferred
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani