Anonymus 297

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM IX
ReligionChristian
LocationsThessalonike (officeplace);
Thessalonike
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Thessalonike (office)
Textual SourcesVita Iosephi Hymnographi, by John The Deacon (BHG 946), PG 105. 940-76 (hagiography)

Anonymus 297 was the bishop of Thessalonike who persuaded Ioseph 12 (Joseph the Hymnographer), then a monk, to accept the priesthood: Ioannes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 952A (ὁ τῆς πόλεως ... ἐπίσκοπος).

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