David 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L VII |
Dates | 681 (taq) / 681 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 1244 |
Variant Names | Dabid |
Religion | Christian; Anti-monothelete |
Locations | Constantinople; Bosporos (Tauric Chersonese); Bosporos (Tauric Chersonese) (officeplace) |
Occupation | Deacon |
Titles | Deacon, Bosporos (Tauric Chersonese) (office) |
Textual Sources | Constantinople, Third Council of (Sixth Ecumenical Council), ed. R. Riedinger, Concilium Universale Constantinopolitanum Tertium, ACO II.2. 1 (Berlin, 1990-1992); also cited from Mansi XI passim (conciliar) |
David 2 was deacon of the church of Bosporos in the Tauric Chersonese; in 681, acting as representative of his bishop Andreas 12, he subscribed the statement of the faith condemning monotheletism, which was produced by the Third Council of Constantinople (the Sixth Ecumenical Council); neither he nor Andreas is attested as present at any of the eighteen sessions of the council but their signature appears among a group of nine bishops at the end of the list of subscriptions; the text reads: Δαυὶδ ἐλάχιστος διάκονος τῆς ἐν Βοσπόρῳ ἁγιωτάτης ἐκκλησίας καὶ τὸν τόπον ἐπέχων Ἀνδρέου τοῦ ὁσιωτάτου μου ἐπισκόπου ὑπέγραψα: Riedinger, p. 796, line 20 (= Mansi XI 653). The old Latin version printed in Riedinger, p. 797, line 20, calls him "
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