Lived: c. AD 100–180
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Melito was bishop of Sardis in Asia Minor, one of the cities addressed in the RevelationRevelation 3:1..
Eusebius, in his fourth-century Church History, quotes a letter of Polycrates, a bishop in Asia Minor, to Bishop Victor of Rome, dated c. AD 186-195. Among other “great lights who have died” in Asia, he names “Melito the eunuch, who governed all things in the Holy Spirit, and who lies at Sardis awaiting the visitation from the heavens when he shall be raised from the dead.”Eusebius, Hist. eccl. V. 24. Jerome quotes a lost work by Tertullian which recounts that many people considered Melito a prophet.Jerome, De Viris Illustribus, ch. 24.