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Hierarch · 4th century

Saint Metrophanes First Patriarch of Constantinople

Also known as Metrophanes I

A bishop of Byzantium in the days of Constantine the Great, honored as the first patriarch of the imperial city, who in great age blessed the gathering of the First Ecumenical Council.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints