Olympianus of Byzantium (; died 198) was the
bishop of Byzantium for eleven years (187 – 198).
Fordham University, History Department, ''Bishops/Patriarchs of Constantinople''
/ref> He succeeded bishop Pertinax of Byzantium. In 196, Byzantium was conquered by Roman emperor Septimius Severus
Lucius Septimius Severus (; ; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through cursus honorum, the ...
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 of Byzantium.
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2nd-century Romans
2nd-century Byzantine bishops
198 deaths
Bishops of Byzantium
Year of birth unknown
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