John

John, Bishop of Messene in the Peloponnese, took part in the Fourth Ecumenical Council, at Chalcedon, in the year 451. He is honoured in the Church of Greece with the Holy Fathers of that Council, with no known canonization; his memory falls on the Sunday between 13 and 19 July.

The sources we have say nothing else about his life, his place and year of birth, his pastoral work or his death. It is known only that Messene, in the south-⁠west of the Peloponnese, had a bishop at that Council, and that his name was kept in the synaxaria as that of a father who confessed the right faith concerning the two natures of Christ.