Menas of Constantinople
Menas of Constantinople (died 25 August 552) was the 55th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 13 March 536 until his death on 25 August 552.
Menas was born in Alexandria, and enters the records in high ecclesiastical office as presbyter and director of the Hospital of Sampson in Constantinople, where tradition has him linked to saint Sampson the Hospitable directly, and in the healing of Byzantine emperor Justinian I from the bubonic plague in 542.
He was appointed Patriarch of Constantinople by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I on 13 March 536. Pope Agapetus I consecrated him to succeed Anthimus I of Constantinople, who was condemned by Agapetus as a monophysite. This was the first time that a Pope consecrated a Patriarch of Constantinople.
In the Martyrology
- August 25 Saint Menas, bishop of Constantinople