Dositheos 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M IX
PmbZ No.1414
ReligionChristian
LocationsConstantinople;
Agauroi (Monastery of, near Prousa) (residence);
Agauroi (Monastery of, near Prousa)
OccupationMonk
Textual SourcesVita Ioannicii, by Petrus the monk (BHG 936), AASS November II 1, pp. 384-435 (hagiography);
Vita Ioannicii, by Sabas the monk (BHG 935), AASSNovember II 1, pp. 332-383 (hagiography)

Dositheos 2 and Eustratios 19 were monks in the monastery of the Agauroi (near Prousa in Bithynia) (τοὺς εὐλαβεστάτους ἄνδρας: Petrus (Petros 126); δυσὶν Ἀγαυρινοῖς μοναχοῖς: Sabas); they accompanied Isaakios 7 (kourator of a women's monastery in Constantinople) when he visited Ioannikios 2 (on Mt Trichalix, near the monastery of the Agauroi); later they accompanied Isaakios 7 back to Constantinople, where they were bound on business (ἐπὶ τὴν διακονίαν, according to Petrus), and they there tried to persuade the unnamed hegoumene (Anonyma 56) of the monastery for whom Isaakios 7 worked to give him permission to become a monk; they narrowly failed to persuade her, being defeated by the influence of the Stoudite monks: Sabas, Vita Ioannicii 33, Petrus, Vita Ioannicii 57.

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