St. Methodius I, Patriarch of Constantinople

J. M. Neale's headnote says S. Methodius I was a native of Syracuse who became a monk at Constantinople. Sent as legate from Pope Paschal to Michael the Stammerer, he was imprisoned for nine years for defending Icons, was scourged under the Emperor Theophilus, escaped, and when peace returned to the Church was raised to the throne of Constantinople. He assembled the synod that restored the Icons, which the Greeks celebrate on Orthodoxy Sunday, and died on 4 November 846. Neale's heading gives 836 instead.

Neale says his compositions are very few and are chiefly confined to Idiomela. This file gives Neale's 1862 version of the idiomela for a Sunday of the Fourth Tone, 'Are thy toils and woes increasing?'. He is a different man from Methodius of Olympus, the earlier martyr whose hymn Brownlie translated.