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'''Philotheos Bryennios''' (Φιλόθεος Βρυέννιος; 7 April 1833 – November 18, 1917) was a [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]] [[metropolitan bishop|metropolitan]] of [[Metropolis of Nicomedia|Nicomedia]], and the discoverer in 1873 of an important [[manuscript]] with copies of early Church documents.

==Life==
Born in the [[Kurtuluş|Tavtalos (Kurtuluş)]] district of [[Istanbul|Constantinople]], with the secular name of [[Theodore (name)|Theodore]], he was educated at the [[Halki seminary|theological school]] in [[Chalki (Turkish island)|Halki]], and at the universities of [[Leipzig]], [[Munich]], and [[Berlin]]. 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 the [[Old Catholic]] conference in [[Bonn]], during which he was appointed metropolitan of [[Serres]] in [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]]. In 1877 he became Metropolitan of Nicomedia.

In 1877, he participated in a commission dealing with plundered monasteries in [[Moldavia]] and [[Wallachia]].

Metropolitan Bryennios died in 1917 in his native [[Constantinople]].

==Works==
In 1873, he discovered a manuscript in the Jerusalem Monastery of the Most Holy Sepulchre, located in the Greek quarter of [[Istanbul|Constantinople]], which contained a synopsis of the Old and New Testaments arranged by St. [[John Chrysostom]], the [[Epistle of Barnabas]], the [[First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians]], the [[Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians]], the [[Didache|Teaching of the Twelve Apostles]] (''Didache''), the spurious letter of Mary of Cassoboli, and twelve [[pseudo-Ignatian Epistles]]. The letters were published in 1875, and the ''Didache'' in 1883; the letters of Clement and the Didache had notes written by Bryennios. The discovery of the ''Didache'' was significant because writers of the early 3rd, 4th and later centuries had spoken of it, but it was presumed lost.

==References==

==External links==
* A fuller profile of the Metropolitan can be found at the Orthodox Wiki Portal: [http://orthodoxwiki.org/Philotheos_%28Bryennios%29_of_Nicomedia Philotheos (Bryennios) of Nicomedia]
* [http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc02/htm/iv.v.cdiii.htm Schaff bio of Bryennios]

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