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==Viaţa==
Metodie s-a născut în Siracuza din Sicilia, în ultima decadă a secolului al VIII-lea, într-o familie înstărita care l-a trimis la [[Constantinopol]] spre a-și continua educația și pentru a obține o funcție la curtea imperială. Când a ajuns la Constantinopol, Metodie a fost convins de un [[călugăr]] să urmeze o viaţă [[monahism|monahiceasca]]. A intrat în [[mănăstire]] pe insula Chios, unde mai târziu a devenit și [[Starețstareţ]]
Early in the ninth century Leo V the Armenian, an iconoclast, became emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire and renewed the persecutions against the [[iconodule]]s that included most of the monastic community. Patriarch [[Nicephorus I of Constantinople|Nicephorus I]] was deposed in 815 for resisting the iconoclastic laws and was banished from the city. Methodius apparently was sent as an envoy by Patr. Nicephorus to Rome in 815 to report on the situation to Pope Paschal. Methodius remained in Rome until the assassination of Emperor Leo in 820. Upon his return to Constantinople in 821, Methodius was arrested by the regime of the iconoclast Emperor Michael II, scourged, and sent into exile to Antigoni in Propontis. In 828, Methodius was released by Michael just before his death.