Epiphanios 25

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VIII/E IX
Dates806 (c.) / 809 (c.)
PmbZ No.1583
ReligionChristian;
Iconophile
LocationsAuxentius (Mt, Bithynia) (officeplace);
Auxentius (Mt, Bithynia) (residence);
Auxentius (Mt, Bithynia)
OccupationHegoumenos
TitlesHegoumenos, Mt Auxentius (Bithynia) (office)
Textual SourcesVita Stephani Iunioris, by Stephanus Diaconus (BHG 1666), ed. M.-F. Auzépy, La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le diacre. Introduction, édition et traduction (Aldershot, 1997); PG 100. 1069-1186 (hagiography)

Epiphanios 25 was a priest and hegoumenos on Mt Auxentius, he was apparently one of the successors of Stephen the Younger (Stephanos 2) as head of the communities on Mt Auxentius; he encouraged Stephen the Deacon (Stephanos 80) to write the Vita of Stephen the Younger and is apostrophised by the author at the beginning and the end of the work (ὦ Πάτερ τίμιε καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ βουνοῦ καὶ τοῦ σπηλαίου καὶ τοῦ τρόπου διάδοχε, ὁσιώτατε Ἐπιφάνιε, ὁ καὶ πρὸς τὸ τοιόνδε ἐγχείρημα ἐπιτάξας καὶ προτρεψάμενος τὴν ἐμὴν ταπεινότητα): Vita Steph. Iun. 175, 26-176, 1 (1184B-C), cf. 87, 1-11 (1068D) (dedicatee; τῷ τιμιωτάτῳ καὶ ἀληθῶς ἐναρέτῳ πατρὶ πνευματικῷ ἀββᾷ Ἐπιφανίῳ πρεσβυτέρῳ καὶ ἡγουμένῳ, θεαρέστως ἡσυχάζοντι ἐν τῷ τοῦ ὁσίου πατρὸς ἡμῶν Αὐξεντίου θαυμαστῷ καὶ ψυχοσώστῳ προσαγορευομένῳ βουνῷ). The work was composed forty-two years after the death of Stephen the Younger (Stephanos 2), therefore in c. 806/809; Epiphanios was apparently therefore head of the communities on Mt Auxentius in c. 806/809. See also Auzépy, pp. 9-10.

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