Polycrates of Ephesus
2nd century bishop of Ephesus
b. 125 · d. 196
5th Metropolitan of Ephesus
Offices
Polycrates of Ephesus was an Early Christian bishop at Ephesus. Polycrates convened a synod to establish Quartodecimanism as the official position on Easter for Asia. Composition of his letter has been dated to between AD 186 and 195.
Related people
- Gaius of Ephesus succeeded · inferred
- Apollonius of Ephesus preceded · inferred
Places
- Ephesus death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 671 sqq. — Provincia Asia, Ecclesia Ephesi metropolis