METHODIUS, a father of the church, bishop of Olympus or Patara in Lycia, and afterward of Tyre in Palestine, suffered martyrdom at Chalces in Greece toward the end of Diocletian's persecution in the year 302. He composed many works in a clear and elaborate style, which were extant in Jerome's time. Father Combefis collected several considerable fragments of this writer, cited by Epiphanius, Photius, and others; and printed them with notes of his own, together with the works of Amphilochius, and Andreas Cretensis, in folio, Paris 1644.