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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Paulos, bishop of Constantinople and confessor, ob. c. 350.

Saint ID

S01500

Gender
Type of Saint
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02282Sozomen, in his Ecclesiastical History (7.10), reports that the remains of *Paulos (bishop of Constantinople, ob. 350s, S01500) were brought from Anatolia to Constantinople in 381, and buried in a church that then bore his name. At the same time, the body of *Meletios (bishop of Antioch, S01192) was ceremoniously taken from Constantinople to Antioch and buried next to the tomb of *Babylas (bishop and martyr of Antioch, S00061). Written in Greek at Constantinople, 439/450.
E03420The early seventh-century Georgian version of the Lectionary of Jerusalem commemorates on 5 November at the Church of the Holy Anastasis *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) and *Paul (bishop of Constantinople and confessor, S01500).
E03917The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 5 November *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) and *Paulos (bishop of Constantinople and confessor, ob. c. 350, S01500) and *Domninos (martyr of Caesarea of Palestine, S00190) and *Matrona (abbess in Constantinople, 5th c., S01829).
E04006Socrates, in his Ecclesiastical History (5.9), reports the transfer in 381/2 of the remains of *Paulos (bishop of Constantinople, ob. 350s, S01500) from Koukousos in Armenia to Constantinople, where they are buried at the former church of the Macedonianists. In the same period, the body of *Meletios (bishop of Antioch, ob. 381, S01192) is transferred from Constantinople to Antioch. Written in Greek at Constantinople, 439/446.
E07002The Greek Life of *Paulos/Paul (the Confessor, bishop of Constantinople, ob. c. 351, S01500) recounts the doctrinal conflicts of the 4th century by way of an account of the life of the orthodox bishop of Constantinople, based on 5th century ecclesiastical histories. Written, probably in Constantinople, in the later 5th century, or later.
E07003The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae (‘Record of the City of Constantinople’) records among the principal churches inside the walls of Constantinople the shrines of *Menas (probably the soldier and martyr buried at Abu Mena, S00073), *Paulos (the Confessor, bishop of Constantinople, ob. c. 350, S01500), *Akakios (martyr of Byzantium, S01603), and the *Holy Apostles (S02422). Written in Latin in Constantinople in the early 5th century.