death_date feast_day imagesize venerated_in article_title name
~ 380 ad january 25 250px roman catholic church ; eastern orthodox church bretannio
 saint bretannio
bretannio

saint bretannio -lrb- also bretanion , bretannion , vetranio , vetranion -rrb- was a bishop of tomi -lrb- today constanţa , romania -rrb- during the fourth century .
of cappadocian origin , he occupied the see of tomi from 360 .
according to sozomen , during the campaign against the goths in this region , the emperor valens stopped at tomi and urged the populace to convert to arianism and reject the nicene creed .
bretannio spoke out against this and for this he was exiled .
however , due to public outcry over the bishop 's exile , he was allowed to return .
basil the great requested of the ruler of scythia minor , junius soranus -lrb- saran -rrb- , that he should send him the relics of saints of that region .
basil was sent the relics of sabbas the goth in caesarea , cappadocia , in 373 or 374 accompanied by a letter , the ` epistle of the church of god in gothia to the church of god located in cappadocia and to all the local churches of the holy universal church ' .
the sending of sabbas ' relics and the writing of the actual letter has been attributed to bretannio .
this letter is the oldest known writing to be composed on romanian soil and was written in greek .
he may have represented tomi at the council held in constantinople in 381 , but his name may have been confused with the name of the bishop gerontius -lrb- terentius -rrb- of tomi , who may have been the actual participant at this council .
baronio , in compiling his martyrology , seems to have arbitarirly assigned him the feast day of january 25 .
