Philotheos Bryennios | |
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| Born | 7 April 1833 |
| Died | 18 November 1917 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (modern-dayIstanbul,Turkey) |
Philotheos Bryennios (Greek:Φιλόθεος Βρυέννιος; 7 April 1833 – November 18, 1917) was aGreek Orthodoxmetropolitan ofNicomedia, and the discoverer in 1873 of an importantmanuscript with copies of early Church documents.
Born in theTavtalos (Kurtuluş) district ofConstantinople, with the secular name ofTheodore, he was educated at thetheological school inHalki, and at the universities ofLeipzig,Munich, andBerlin. He became a professor at Halki in 1861, and then director in 1863. In 1867 he went to head the Patriarchal School in Constantinople, leaving in 1875 to attend theOld Catholic conference inBonn, during which he was appointed metropolitan ofSerres inMacedonia. In 1877 he became Metropolitan of Nicomedia.[1]
In 1877, he participated in a commission dealing with plundered monasteries inMoldavia andWallachia.
Metropolitan Bryennios died in 1917 in his nativeConstantinople.
In 1873, he discovered a manuscript in the library of the monastery of the Holy Sepulcher (Jerusalem Patriarchate metochion) in Constantinople (present day Istanbul, Turkey), which contained a Synopsis of the books of the Old and New Testaments attributed to St.John Chrysostom, theEpistle of Barnabas, theFirst Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, theSecond Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, theTeaching of the Twelve Apostles (Didache), the twelveIgnatian Epistles, and a short treatise on the genealogy of Christ. The epistles were published in 1875, and theDidache in 1883; the epistles of Clement and the Didache had notes written by Bryennios. The discovery of theDidache was significant because writers of the early 3rd, 4th and later centuries had spoken of it, but it was presumed lost.[2]
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