Epiphanios 5 was bishop of Perta in Lycaonia; in 787 he attended the Second Council of Nikaia (the Seventh Ecumenical Council) and is attested at the first, second and seventh sessions, on 24 September, 26 September and 13 October 787; Mansi XII 998, 1107, XIII 396. In the list of those present at the first session he is styled Ἐπιφανίου ἐπισκόπου Πέρτων: Mansi XII 998. Elsewhere he is styled Ἐπιφάνιος ὁ ὁσίωτατος ἐπίσκοπος Περτεῶν or similar: Mansi XII 1107, XIII 396 (ἐπίσκοπος πόλεως Πελτῶν - sic). He is not named in the list of those present at the seventh session, nor among those at the fourth session who subscribed the statements read out from the Fathers in support of icon veneration. At the second session he supported the traditional veneration of icons as described in statements from pope Hadrian I (Hadrianos 1) and condemned iconoclasts: Mansi XII 1107. At the seventh session he subscribed the statement of the faith adopted by the Council: Mansi XIII 296.

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