Anastasios 7

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L VII
Dates680 (taq) / 682 (tpq)
PmbZ No.243
Variant NamesAnastasius
ReligionChristian;
Monothelete
LocationsConstantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople (residence);
Rome (residence);
Constantinople;
Rome (exileplace)
OccupationMonk;
Priest
Textual SourcesConstantinople, Third Council of (Sixth Ecumenical Council), ed. R. Riedinger, Concilium Universale Constantinopolitanum Tertium, ACO II.2. 1 (Berlin, 1990-1992); also cited from Mansi XI passim (conciliar);
Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le liber pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92); re-issued with 3rd vol. by C. Vogel, (Paris, 1955-57) (chronicle)

Anastasios 7 was a priest and monk of the oratories of the patriarchate of Constantinople, who he attended the Third Council of Constantinople (the Sixth Ecumenical Council) and was present at the first ten sessions (7 November 680-18 March 681): Riedinger, pp. 18-284 (= Mansi XI 212-390). In the lists of those attending each session he is styled Ἀναστασίου πρεσβυτέρου καὶ μοναχοῦ τῶν εὐκτηρίων τοῦ ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει εὐαγοῦς πατριαρχείου (or similar): Riedinger, p. 18, line 26, p. 30, line 28, etc. (= Mansi XI 212, 220, etc.) (his name is missing from the Greek text of sessions nine and ten but is preserved in the Latin version; the old Latin version printed in Riedinger, p. 19, line 24, calls him "Anastasio presbitero et monacho oratoriorum hic siti uenerabilis patriarchii" or similar). He is styled πρεσβύτερος καὶ μοναχὸς (or similar): Riedinger, p. 204, line 18, p. 208, line 8, p. 276, line 11, p. 284, lines 18-19, p. 390, line 9 (= Mansi XI 341, 344, 382, 386, 391, 449). He was named at the eighth session by Theodoros 26 (bishop of Melitene) as one of those associated with a document containing reservations about the condemnation of monotheletism though with the others he then denied any connection: Riedinger, pp. 204-208 (= Mansi XI 341-344). At the ninth session he was admitted with the others named by Theodoros 26 after the start of the session and with them undertook to present a statement of his faith in due course: Riedinger, p. 270, lines 11-12, p. 276, line 11, p. 284, line 20 (= Mansi XI 382, 386, 391). A statement, with which they all agreed, was read out at the tenth session (on 18 March 681): Riedinger, pp. 390ff. (= Mansi XI 449ff). He attended no further sessions of the Council. After the Council ended he was among the supporters of Makarios 1 who were exiled with him to Rome: Lib. Pont. 81. 14 (Epiphanio et Anastasio ex presbyteris et inclausis). He is perhaps to be identified with the Anastasius who refused to abandon his views and was shut up in a monastery at Rome by pope Leo II (Leo 16): Lib. Pont. 82. 3 (and cf. Anastasios 12).

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