Elias 26

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitM VII
Dates649 (taq) / 649 (tpq)
PmbZ No.2550
Variant NamesHelias
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsLilybaeum (Sicily);
Rome;
Lilybaeum (Sicily) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Lilybaeum (Sicily) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Elias 26 was bishop of Lilybaeum (in Sicily); he attended all five sessions of the Lateran Council, from 5 October to 31 October 649, and in the list of bishops present is named in sixty-first place: Conc. Lat., p. 4, line 33 (Ἡλία ἐπισκόπου Λιλλυβίου), p. 5, line 33 ("Helia Lillybitano episcopo") (the first session), cf. pp. 33, 113, 179 and 249 (the Latin version only is repeated for the other sessions). He subscribed the definition of the faith agreed by the Council at its fifth session: Conc. Lat., p. 396, line 25 (Ἡλίας ἐπίσκοπος Λιλλυβαίου), p. 397, line 25 ("Helia episcopus sanctae Lillybitane ecclesiae").

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