Christophoros 20 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VIII/E IX |
PmbZ No. | 1112 |
Religion | Christian |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Metropolitan, unknown (office) |
Seal Sources | Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981); Panchenko, B. A., Katalog Molivdovulov (Sofia, 1908); repr. from Izvestiia Russkogo archeologicheskogo instituta v Konstantinopole (1903, 1904, 1908) |
Christophoros 20 was metropolitan bishop of an unnamed see; owner of a seal dateable to the eighth or ninth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, 928 = Panchenko, Katalog, no. 372. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει. Rev.: + Χ[ρι] - στοφο - ρῳ μητ - ροπολι - τῃ+. Possibly identical with Christophoros, metropolitan bishop of an unnamed see, who owned two other similar seals dateable to the late eighth or early ninth century: Zacos and Veglery 3011a and 3011b. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει, in a four-lobed envelope. Rev.: +Χρι - στοφο - ρω μητ - ροπολι - τη+.
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