Anonymus 618 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M IX |
Dates | 859 (tpq) / 867 (taq) |
Locations | Eriste (Bithynia); Eriste (Bithynia) (officeplace) |
Titles | Bishop, Eriste (Bithynia) (office) |
Textual Sources | Photius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters) |
Anonymus 618 was the bishop of Eriste (ὁ μὲν τῆς Ἐριστῆς ἐπίσκοπος) who is mentioned in a letter from the patriarch Photius (Photios 1) written to the hesychast Athanasios 18; Anonymus 618 was an old man (ὁ γέρων) and a former schismatic who had been restored to the Church by the efforts of Athanasios 18: Photius, Ep. 20 (I 71 Laourdas-Westerink). The letter was written between 859 and 867. Eriste was in Bithynia; cf. Athanasios 18.
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