Saints from Constantinople

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

Christian saint and theologian (c. 329 – 390)

Marcian (; ; ; 392 – 27 January 457) was Roman emperor of the East from 450 to 457. Very little is known of his life before becoming emperor, other than that he was a (personal assistant) who served under the commanders Ardabur and his son Aspar for fifteen years. After the death of Emperor Theodosius II on 28 July 450, Marcian was made a candidate for the throne by Aspar, who held much influence because of his military power. After a month of negotiations Pulcheria, Theodosius' sister, agreed to marry Marcian. Zeno, a military leader whose influence was similar to Aspar's, may have been

Byzantine aristocrat, monk and historian (c.758/60–c.817/8)

Aelia Pulcheria (; ; 19 January 398 or 399 – July 453) was an Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother, the emperor Theodosius II, during his minority and then became wife to emperor Marcian from November 450 to her death in 453.

Kassia, Cassia, Kassiane, or Kassiani (, ; – c.865) was a Byzantine-Greek composer, hymnographer and poet. She holds a unique place in Byzantine music as the only known woman whose music appears in the Byzantine liturgy. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant, most of which are stichera, though at least 26 have uncertain attribution. The authenticity issues are due to many hymns being anonymous, and others ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts. She was an abbess of a convent in the west of Constantinople.

Byzantine saint

Christian saint, monk, and theologian

second bishop of Byzantium from AD 38 to AD 54

Patriarch of Constantinople

Roman Catholic archbishop of Constantinople between 434 and 446

Patriarch of Constatinople

Bishop of Byzantium from 306 to 314

Byzantine courtier; the wife of a consul and a lady-in-waiting to the Byzantine empress Theodora; Christian saint

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

Eastern Orthodox saint

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 705 to 712

Greek orthodox saint-Patriarch of Constantinople

Greek saint

Greek saint

Christian saint

thumbnail Patapios of Thebes (fl. 4th century AD) is the patron saint of dropsy. Saint Patapios’ memory is celebrated on 8 December (main celebration) and also at the Tuesday 2 days after the Sunday of Easter (in memory of the day that his relic was discovered). His relic is kept at the female monastery of Saint Patapios at Loutraki, a spa town near Athens, Greece.

Byzantine saint

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Greek-Roman saint

12th-century Greek Metropolitan of Thebes

early Christian martyrs (-404)