Philotheos Bryennios

<p ><b>Philotheos Bryennios</b> (March 26 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates" >Old Style</a>) 1833 - 1914 or 1918) was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church" >Greek Orthodox</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_bishop" title="Metropolitan bishop" >metropolitan</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_of_Nicomedia" title="Metropolis of Nicomedia" >Nicomedia</a>, and the discoverer in 1873 of an important <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript" >manuscript</a> with copies of early Church documents.</p>

<p >Born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul" >Constantinople</a>, he was educated at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halki_seminary" title="Halki seminary" >theological school</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalki(Turkish_island)" title="Chalki (Turkish island)" class="mw-redirect" >Chalki</a>, and at the universities of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig" >Leipzig</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich" title="Munich" >Munich</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin" >Berlin</a>. He became a professor at Chalki in 1861. In 1867 he went to head the Patriarchal School in Constantinople, leaving in 1875 to attend the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Catholic" title="Old Catholic" class="mw-redirect" >Old Catholic</a> conference in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn" title="Bonn" >Bonn</a>, during which he was appointed metropolitan of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serres" title="Serres" >Serres</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia(region)" title="Macedonia (region)" >Macedonia</a>. In 1877 he transferred to Nicomedia.

In 1877, he participated in a commission dealing with plundered monasteries in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavia" title="Moldavia" >Moldavia</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachia" title="Wallachia" >Wallachia</a>.</p>

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<p >While in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul" >Constantinople</a>, he discovered a manuscript in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre" title="Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre" >Jerusalem Monastery of the Most Holy Sepulcher</a>, which contained a synopsis of the Old and New Testaments arranged by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Chrysostom" title="St. Chrysostom" class="mw-redirect" >St. Chrysostom</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_of_Barnabas" title="Epistle of Barnabas" >Epistle of Barnabas</a>, the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_of_Clement_to_the_Corinthians" title="First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians" class="mw-redirect" >First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Epistle_of_Clement_to_the_Corinthians" title="Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians" class="mw-redirect" >Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didache" title="Didache" >Teaching of the Twelve Apostles</a> (<i>Didache</i>), the spurious letter of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_of_Cassoboli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary of Cassoboli (page does not exist)" >Mary of Cassoboli</a>, and twelve <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Ignatian_Epistles" title="Pseudo-Ignatian Epistles" class="mw-redirect" >pseudo-Ignatian Epistles</a>. The letters were published in 1875, and the <i>Didache</i> in 1883.</p>

Philotheos Bryennios

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