Amphion, St

Amphion, St.

bishop of Epiphania, in Cilicia, who confessed the faith during the persecution of Maximin Daza. He was afterwards present at the councils of Ancyra, A.D. 314, and Neocaesarea, held about the same time; and for a time occupied the see of Nicomedia, in the place of the Arian Eusebius; but he afterwards returned to Epiphania, where he died. He is mentioned in the Roman martyrology on June 12. See Baillet, June 12.