Donatos 7

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitM VII
Dates645 (taq) / 646 (tpq)
PmbZ No.1385
Variant NamesDonatus
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsRome;
Limmisensis ecclesia (Byzacena);
Limmisensis ecclesia (Byzacena) (residence);
Limmisensis ecclesia (Byzacena) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Limmisensis ecclesia (Byzacena) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Donatos 7 was bishop of Limmisensis ecclesia in Byzacena; in 645/646 he subscribed the letter sent from the bishops of Byzacena to the emperor Constans (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 fifteenth: Conc. Lat., p. 77, line 31 ("Donatus gratia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Limmisensi"). His see was Limisa.

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