METHODIUS, a father of the church, bishop of Olympus or Patara in Lycia, and afterward of Tyre in Palestine, suffered martyrdom at Chalcedon in Greece towards 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 Combes collected several considerable fragments of this writer, cited by Epiphanius, Photius, and others;
Methuselah others; and printed them with notes of his own, together with the works of Amphilochus, and Andreas Cretenis, in folio. Paris 1644.