Benerios 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates645 (taq) / 646 (tpq)
PmbZ No.1005
Variant NamesBenerius
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsRome;
Turditana civitas (Byzacena);
Turditana civitas (Byzacena) (residence);
Turditana civitas (Byzacena) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Turditana civitas (Byzacena) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Benerios 1 was bishop of civitas Turditana 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 seventh: Conc. Lat., p. 77, line 21 ("Benerius humilis misericordia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae civitatis Turditanae").

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