Methodius

His Life says that he governed a Slavic district for the emperor before becoming a monk on Mount Olympus, and that he went with his brother first to the Khazars and then to Moravia (Life of Methodius 2–5). After his brother’s death he was sent back by Pope Hadrian II, made bishop for Pannonia at the request of the prince Kocel, tried by the Frankish king’s bishops and held for two and a half years until the pope intervened (Life of Methodius 8–10).

Pope John VIII summoned him to Rome in 879 on reports that he taught otherwise than he had professed and sang mass in Slavonic (John VIII, Letters, 200–201 (879)), and the next year declared him orthodox and confirmed him as archbishop (John VIII, Letters, 255 (June 880)). He translated the books of Scripture that he and his brother had not already done, and died on 6 April 885; his funeral was held in Latin, Greek and Slavonic (Life of Methodius 15; 17). See Cyril and Methodius among the Slavs.