Olympianus ( el, Ὀλυμπιανός, died 198) was the
bishop of Byzantium
The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and ''primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of the ...
for eleven years (187–198 AD). He succeeded
Bishop Pertinax. In 196
Byzantium was conquered by Emperor
Septimius Severus during his rivalry with
Pescennius Niger. Septimius Severus took the right of metropolis from the city and made it part of the
Heracleia. Byzantium remained a bishopric under Heracleia for more than a century.
Olympianus' successor was
Marcus I.
Sources
www.ec-patr.org
2nd-century Romans
2nd-century Byzantine bishops
198 deaths
Bishops of Byzantium
Year of birth unknown
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