Alexander of Constantinople
Bishop of Byzantium and the first bishop of Constantinople
b. 3rd century · d. 337
27th Archbishop of Constantinople (Ecumenical Patriarch)
Offices
Alexander of Constantinople was bishop of Byzantium from 314 and the first bishop of Constantinople from 330. Scholars consider most of the available information on Alexander to be legendary.
Related people
- Metrophanes of Byzantium succeeded · inferred
- Paul I of Constantinople ordainer of · traditional
- Paul I of Constantinople preceded · inferred
Events
Commemorated
Places
- Calabria birth
- Constantinople ministry
- Istanbul ministry
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) 1 claim — First Council of Nicaea
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, col. 195 sqq. — Patriarchae Constantinopolitani