Aimilianos 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates815 (taq) / 815 (tpq)
PmbZ No.153
ReligionChristian;
Iconophile
LocationsKyzikos;
Constantinople;
Kyzikos (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Kyzikos (office)
Textual SourcesGouillard, J., "Le Synodikon de l'orthodoxie", TM 2 (1967), pp. 45-107 (liturgical);
Vita Nicetae Hegoumeni Medicii, Auctore Theostericto (BHG 1341), AASS April I, Appendix, pp. xviii-xxviii (hagiography);
Vita Theophylacti Archiepiscopi Nicomediae, (BHG 2451), ed. A. Vogt, "S. Théophylacte de Nicomédie", Anal. Boll. 50 (1932), pp. 71-82 (hagiography)
Seal SourcesDumbarton Oaks, A Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, eds., J. Nesbitt and N. Oikonomides (Washington, DC, 1991-);
Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981);
Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972).

Aimilianos 1 was bishop of Kyzikos; he defended the veneration of icons at a meeting with the emperor Leo V (Leo 15) in the imperial palace: Vita Nicetae Medicii 34 (Αἰμιλιανὸς ὁ Κυζίκου ἐπίσκοπος). The date was 815. Aimilianos 1 was one of the bishops summoned to Constantinople in 814 and 815 by the patriarch Nikephoros 2 to plead with the emperor Leo V (Leo 15) not to adopt iconoclast policies; after the exile of Nikephoros 2, they rebuked the emperor to his face and were all sent into exile, each to a different place: Vita S. Theophylacti 12-14. One of his seals is extant: DOSeals III 53. 1 = Zacos and Veglery 1326 = Laurent, Corpus V 3, 1703. Obv.: busts of the Virgin and Child, with cruciform monograms of Θεοτόκε βοήθει and τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: +Αιμι - λιανω μ - ητ[ρ]οπ' Κ - υζι[κ]. The name and title read: Αἰμιλιανῷ μητροπολίτῃ Κυζίκου. See also Synax. Eccl. Const. 875 (8 August); and cf. A. Vogt, "S. Théophylacte de Nicomédie", in Anal. Boll. 50 (1932), p. 78 with n. 2. He is included among the confessors and archbishops acclaimed for their support of icons in the Synodikon of Orthodoxy: Gouillard, "Le Synodikon", p. 53, line 121.

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