Elpidios 3

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VII
Dates692 (taq) / 692 (tpq)
PmbZ No.1510
Variant NamesElpidius
ReligionChristian
LocationsHagios Agapios (Thermae, Galatia);
Constantinople;
Hagios Agapios (Thermae, Galatia) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Thermae of Hagios Agapios (Galatia) (office)
Textual SourcesTrullo, (Quinisext) Council in, List of bishops, ed. H. Ohme, Das Concilium Quinisextum und seine Bischofsliste: Studien zum Konstantinopeler Konzil von 692, (Berlin, 1990), pp. 145-170; Mansi XI (conciliar)

Elpidios 3 was bishop of the Baths of St Agapios (Thermai of Hagios Agapios) in Galatia Secunda; in 692 he attended the Quinisext Council and signed the canons: Ohme, Bischofsliste, p. 162, no. 155 (= Mansi XI 1000) (Ἐλπίδιος ἐλάχιστος ἐπίσκοπος τῶν Θερμῶν τοῦ ἁγίου Ἀγαπίου τῆς δευτέρας τῶν Γαλατῶν ἐπαρχίας). For the identification of his see with Myrika and the Baths of St Agapetus, see Ramsay, Historical Geography, p. 226.

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