Alexander of Constantinople

Who they were

At Constantinople, Saint Alexander, bishop, whose apostolic prayer, as Saint Gregory of Nazianzus writes, crushed the head of Arian impiety.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 28 August as a bishop of Constantinople whose prayer overcame the Arian heresy.

Connected on this site

• Gregory of Nazianzus Saint
  “At Constantinople, Saint Alexander, bishop, whose apostolic prayer, as Saint Gregory of Nazianzus writes, crushed the head of Arian impiety.” — this site's research
• Metrophanes of Byzantium Saint
  “According to Gelasius of Cyzicus, Metrophanes was alive during the First Council of Nicaea (325), but could not partake due to his age and ill health, so he sent instead Alexander of Constantinople, whom he destined as his successor.” — Wikipedia