A Stoudite monk, Epiphanios 48 was the addressee of three letters from Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite), written in 817 or 818: Theod. Stud., Epp. 377, 378, 379 (all addressed Ἐπιφανίῳ τέκνῳ or τῷ αὐτῷ). He is mentioned in six further letters of Theodoros 15: Theod. Stud., Epp. 33, 34, 35, 41, 72, 405. In 808 and 809 he travelled to Rome to deliver letters of Theodoros 15 to the bishop of Rome, Leo III (Leo 11), and the archimandrite Basilios 135, with news about the developments in the Moechian controversy: Theod. Stud., Epp. 33, 34, 35 (all E/M 809). He was one of the monks whom Theodoros 15 proposed to identify by a code letter, for reasons of security, in 810/811: Theod. Stud., Ep. 41. In 817 or 818 he was asked by Theodoros 15 to deliver letters to the bishop of Rome, Paschalis 1, but was apparently arrested first by the iconoclasts: Theod. Stud., Epp. 377, 378, 379. He is addressed as τέκνον μου ἠγαπημένον: Theod. Stud., Ep. 377. He is alluded to as ὁ ἀδελφὸς καὶ σύνδουλος ἡμῶν or similar: Theod. Stud., Epp. 33, 34, 35.

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