Basil

Basil, Bishop of Trebizond, lived in the time of the emperors Leo the Wise and Constantine Porphyrogennetos and is commemorated on 20 October as a saint honoured in the Church of Trebizond. He does not appear in the synaxaria, has no known canonization, and the sources say no more.

His sung service was found by Kerameus Papadopoulos in a manuscript at Trebizond and published in the Vizantiisky Vremennik (Byzantine Chronicle). From it we know that each year on this day the Church of Trebizond kept his memory. For the holiness of his life he was numbered among the saints of the Church of Trebizond. The two reigns, of Leo VI (886 to 912) and Constantine VII (913 to 959), indicate that he lived at the end of the ninth century or in the first half of the tenth. No further details are known.