Agapetos 3

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates821 (taq) / 821 (tpq)
PmbZ No.119
ReligionChristian;
Iconophile
LocationsCherson (Tauric Chersonese) (exileplace);
Cherson (Tauric Chersonese) (residence);
Cherson (Tauric Chersonese);
Constantinople
OccupationMonk
Textual SourcesTheodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters)

A monk (Ἀγαπητὸν τὸν αἰδεσιμώτατον μοναστὴν: p. 611, lines 4-5); he is mentioned in a letter written by Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite), soon after the death of Leo V (Leo 15), to bishops in exile at Cherson; a fellow exile of theirs (ἕνα τῶν συνδεδιωγμένων ἀδελφῶν: p. 611, line 4), he was sent by them to Constantinople to learn the state of affairs after the death of Leo; while there he met the exiled patriarch Nikephoros 2 as well as Theodoros 15; on his return with this letter (τὸν γραμματηφόρον: p. 612, line 33), he also took gifts from Theodoros for the bishops: Theod.Stud. Ep. 435, pp. 611-612 (c.

821; addressed ἐπισκόποις τοῖς διὰ Κύριον φυγαδευθεῖσιν ἐν Χερσῶνι).

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