Ammonas 1 was one of a group of ten Stoudite monks who suffered punishment and exile for their opposition to iconoclasm under the emperor Leo V (Leo 15): Theod. Stud., Ep. 181, pp. 303-305 (written in 816 and addressed Εὐθυμίῳ καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς ἀδελφοῖς; Ammonas 1 is named with Euthymios 15 and the others in a list of the ten who suffered). Addressee of two letters from Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite), written in 816 and 817/818 to him in exile. According to the first, written in mid or late 816 (Fatouros, p. 302*), he had been persecuted and beaten for Christ; he had shed blood with his fellow monks (ἀδελφοί: p. 381, line 26) and been exiled; he had a brother who was also a monk and who may have been in exile with him (ἐὰν σύνεστί σοι ὁ κατὰ σάρκα καὶ πνεῦμα ἀδελφὸς καὶ τέκνον μου, προσαγορεύω αὐτόν: p. 381, lines 24-25); styled Ἀδελφὲ Ἀμμωνᾶ (p. 381, line 2): Theod. Stud., Ep. 249, p. 381 (the letter is addressed Ἀμμωνᾷ τέκνῳ). In the second letter, written in winter 817/818 or spring 818 (Fatouros, p. 356*), he is styled Καλὲ Ἀμμωνᾶ, p. 485, line 2; he was still in exile: Theod. Stud., Ep. 347, p. 485 (addressed Ἀμμωνᾷ τέκνῳ).

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