Anastasios 19 was bishop of Patara in Lycia; in 787 he attended the Second Council of Nikaia (the Seventh Ecumenical Council) and was probably present at all eight sessions, from 24 September to 23 November 787: Mansi XII 998-XIII 486. In the lists of those present at the first and seventh sessions he is styled Ἀναστάσιου ἐπισκόπου Πατάρων: Mansi XII 998, XIII 369. Elsewhere he is styled Ἀναστάσιος ὁ ὁσιώτατος ἐπίσκοπος Πατάρων or similar: Mansi XII 1103, XIII 145 (Ἀναστάσιος ἐπίσκοπος Πάτρων). At the second session he supported the traditional veneration of icons as described in statements from pope Hadrian I (Hadrianos 1), and condemned iconoclasts: Mansi XII 1103. At the fourth session he subscribed the statements read out from the Fathers in support of the veneration of icons: Mansi XIII 145. His name is missing from the list of those who subscribed the statement of the faith adopted by the Council at the seventh session, but he was present at that session and the omission is probably an error in the text.

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