Basilios 58 was bishop of Parion (in Thrace); Basilios 58 was an iconophile and suffered severely from the iconoclast persecution; it was he who consecrated Ignatios 1 (future patriarch of Constantinople) as a priest, taking him through the stages of anagnostes, hupodiakonos (sub-deacon), diakonos and priest: Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 497A-B (χειρὶ μὲν Βασιλείου - τῆς κατὰ τὸ Πάρεον δὲ οὗτος ἱερᾶς ἐκκλησίας ἀρχιερεὺς ὢν, πλείσταις ὅσαις ὑπὲρ τῶν ἱερῶν εἰκόνων θλίψεσι τότε προσωμίλει καὶ διωγμοῖς). The date was therefore during one of the periods of persecution. See further Synax. Eccl. Const. 597,19-28 (12 April), 599/600,49 (13 April), 601/602,47 (14 April), Menol. Bas. 400B-C (13 April), and cf. PmbZ 935 (Band I, p. 308).

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