of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of Antioch, the former See of Peter before he went to Rome. In 117 he was sentenced to death by the Emperor Trajan and arrested in Antioch.

Saint Meletius, Archbishop of Antioch, was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia (ca. 357), and afterwards he was summoned to Antioch by the emperor Constantius to help combat the Arian heresy, and was ...