People from Antioch

Church Father, Archbishop of Constantinople and Christian saint (c. 347–407)

1st century BC Syrian-born Latin writer

6th-century Byzantine Greek chronicler

Libanius (; ) was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a critical source of history of the Greek East during the 4th century AD. During the rise of Christian hegemony in the later Roman Empire, he remained unconverted and in religious matters was a pagan Hellene.

American astronomer

King of Syria from 34 to 30 BC

christian theologian

Byzantine Empress

Syrian bishop and saint

Pelagia (, d. 457), distinguished as Pelagia of Antioch, Pelagia the Penitent, and Pelagia the Harlot, was a Christian saint and hermit in the 4th or 5th century. Her feast day was celebrated on 8 October, originally in common with Saints Pelagia the Virgin and Pelagia of Tarsus. Pelagia died as a result of extreme asceticism, which had emaciated her to the point she could no longer be recognized. According to Orthodox tradition, she was buried in her cell on the Mount of Olives. Upon the discovery that the renowned monk had been a woman, the holy fathers tried to keep it a secret, but the gos

late-antique historian

bishop

1st century BC Greek writer

Christian Saint

Italian admiral

Greek sophist and rhetorician

Bishop of Salona

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 1179-1183

Patriarch of Constantinople

5th-century priest and historian, bishop of Maiuma

Byzantine physician

Roman consul

ancient Greek grammarian

Anatolian saint

geographer and vicarius of Roman Britain

Syrian astrologer

Birillus (died 90 AD) of Antioch was an early Christian saint. He was ordained to the priesthood by Saint Peter and became the first evangelizer and the first bishop of Catania in Sicily.

4th-century Syrian Christian hermit

priest and saint

early bishop of Tyre and patriach of Antioch

first Bishop of Lucca