Diogenes of Byzantium
Early 2nd century bishop of Byzantium
b. 1st century · d. 129
7th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Diogenes of Byzantium was the bishop of Byzantium for approximately fifteen years (114–129). He succeeded bishop Sedecion of Byzantium. He was in office during the rule of Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian. Very little is known of him
Related people
- Sedecion of Byzantium succeeded · inferred
- Eleutherius 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