See of Sardis
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The See of Sardis or Sardes was an episcopal see in the city of that name. It was one of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse, held by metropolitan bishops since the middle to late 1st century, with j
The martyrdom of Euthymius of Sardis. From the Madrid Skylitzes.
Clement, a disciple of Paul the Apostle (pictured), attested to in Paul's Epistle to the Philippians is the first recorded bishop of Sardis.
Eugenio Pacelli (future Pope Pius XII) was made titular archbishop of Sardis by Pope Benedict XV.
Euthymius of Sardis
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Euthymius of Sardis or Euthymius the Confessor was metropolitan bishop of Sardis between ca. 785 and ca. 804, and a leading iconophile during the period of Byzantine Iconoclasm. Martyred in 831, he is
See of Sardis
…Arabs sacked Sardis in 716, but the city remained a part of a resurgent Roman (Byzantine) Empire until the aftermath of the battle of Manzikert in 1071. Euthymius, a Metropolitan Bishop of Sardis, was martyred in 824 in relation to iconoclasm. In 1118, Byzantine general Philocales recaptured Sardis from the Seljuk…
Fresco from Moni Agiou Vissarionos