Anonymus 284

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
ReligionChristian;
Iconoclast
LocationsDecapolis (Isauria) (residence);
Decapolis (Isauria)
OccupationHegoumenos;
Monk
TitlesHegoumenos, unknown (Decapolis in Isauria) (office)
Textual SourcesVita Gregorii Decapolitae, by Ignatius the Deacon,ed. F. Dvornik, La Vie de Saint Grégoire le Décapolite et les Slaves macédoniens au IXe siècle (Paris, 1926), pp. 45-75 (hagiography)

Anonymus 284 was hegoumenos of the monastery in the Decapolis in Isauria in which Gregory the Decapolite (Gregorios 79) first became a monk; he was an associate of iconoclasts, whose views he shared, and for this he was loudly and publicly denounced by Gregorios 79 before the assembled monks; Anonymus 284 then had Gregorios 79 well flogged and disgraced: Ignatius, Vita Greg. Dec. 4.

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