Athanasios 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 816 (taq) / 826 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 677 |
| Religion | Iconophile |
| Locations | Plateia Petra (Lydia) (exileplace); Plateia Petra (Lydia) (residence); Plateia Petra (Lydia) |
| Occupation | Hegoumenos |
| Titles | Hegoumenos, unknown (office) |
| Textual Sources | Vita Petri Atroensis, by Sabas the monk (BHG 2364), ed. V. Laurent, La Vie merveilleuse de Saint Pierre d'Atroa, Subsidia Hagiographica 29 (Brussels, 1956) (hagiography) |
Athanasios 3 was an iconophile hegoumenos (for ποιμὴν meaning ἡγούμενος, see Laurent, La Vie Merveilleuse, p. 118, note 2); he was exiled in the reign of Leo V (Leo 15) to the fortress of Plateia Petra in Lydia: Vita Petr. Atr. 23 (pp. 119-121). There he was visited by Petros 34 (Peter of Atroa) and Petros's brother Paulos 26: Vita Petr. Atr. 23 (p. 121), 25, 26 (p. 125). Possibly identical with Athanasios 17.
(Publishable link for this person: )