Bryennios, Philotheos

Bryennios, Philotheos, theologian, born at Constantinople in 1833, studied at home and in Germany, and presided over the great Greek school in Constantinople from 1867 to 1874. He was one of two representatives of the Greek Church at the Old Catholic conference in Bonn in 1875, and while absent there was chosen Metropolitan of Serrae in Macedonia. In 1877 he was translated to Nicomedia. Bryennios is known as editor of the Epistles of Clement (q.v.) and discoverer of the Didachē (see APOSTLES, TEACHING OF THE).