Benaklos 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates645 (taq) / 646 (tpq)
PmbZ No.991
Variant NamesBenaclus
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsHermiana (Byzacena);
Hermiana (Byzacena) (residence);
Hermiana (Byzacena) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Hermiana (Byzacena) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Benaklos 1 was bishop of Hermiana in Byzacena; in 645/646 he subscribed the letter sent from the bishops of Byzacena to the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1) asking him to persuade the patriarch of Constantinople, Paulos 2, to abandon the monothelete heresy; the letter was read out at the Lateran Council in October 649; in the list of signatures his name appears forty-first: Conc. Lat., p. 79, line 22 ("Benaclus gratia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Hermianensis").

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