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Thraseas

Portrait of Thraseas

About Thraseas

Eusebius records Thraseas among the Asian Christian leaders named by Polycrates in his letter to Victor of Rome. Polycrates identifies him as a bishop and martyr from Eumenia who “fell asleep” at Smyrna. No further biographical particulars are supplied in this passage.

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