Methodios 4

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM IX
Dates858 (tpq) / 861 (taq)
PmbZ No.4981
Variant NamesMethodius
ReligionChristian
LocationsGangra (Paphlagonia) (officeplace);
Gangra (Paphlagonia);
Rome
OccupationBishop
TitlesMetropolitan, Gangra (Paphlagonia) (office)
Textual SourcesLiber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le liber pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92); re-issued with 3rd vol. by C. Vogel, (Paris, 1955-57) (chronicle);
Nicolaus I, Epistulae, ed. P. Jaffé et al., Regesta Pontificum Romanorum (Leipzig, 1885-88) (letters)

Methodios 4 was metropolitan bishop of Gangra: Letter of pope Nicolas I (Nikolaos 28) (Jaffé 2819; cited by Duchesne, Lib. Pont. II, p. 168, n. 14). A metropolitan bishop of an unnamed see: Lib. Pont. 107. 18 ("Methodius metropolitanus"). He was one of two bishops (the other was Samuel 2) sent with two deposed bishops (Zacharias 21 and Theophilos 24) and the protospatharius Arsaber 7 to Rome by the emperor Michael III (Michael 11) with gifts for St Peter's and letters to the bishop of Rome, Nicolas I (Nikolaos 28), asking him to send representatives to Constantinople, ostensibly on business concerning the iconoclasts but actually to win papal support for his policy over Ignatios 1 and Photios 1: Lib.Pont. 107, 18, cf. Jaffé 2819 ("quidam episcoporum quorum unus erat Gangrensium metropolitanus"). The date was after Photios 1 became patriarch in 858 and before the Council of Constantinople met in 861.

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