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Bishop of Byzantium from 187 to 198
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Olympianus of Byzantium
Bishop of Byzantium
Installed187
Term ended198
PredecessorPertinax of Byzantium
SuccessorMarcus I of Byzantium
Personal details
DenominationEarly Christianity

Olympianus (Greek: Ὀλυμπιανός; died 198) was the bishop of Byzantium 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.

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Titles of the Great Christian Church
Preceded byPertinax Bishop of Byzantium
187–198
Succeeded byMarcus I
Bishops of Byzantium and Patriarchs of Constantinople
Bishops of Byzantium
(Roman period, 38–330 AD)
Archbishops of Constantinople
(Roman period, 330–451 AD)
Patriarchs of Constantinople
(Byzantine period, 451–1453 AD)
Patriarchs of Constantinople
(Ottoman period, 1453–1923 AD)
Patriarchs of Constantinople
(Turkish period, since 1923 AD)


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