Eulampios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M IX |
Dates | 858 (taq) / 847 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 1672 |
Religion | Christian |
Locations | Hagia Sophia (Constantinople); Apamea (Bithynia) (officeplace); Apamea (Bithynia) (residence); Apamea (Bithynia); Constantinople |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Apamea (Bithynia) (office) |
Textual Sources | Council of Constantinople (869) (The Anti-Photian Council), Epitome, tr. Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Mansi XVI, pp. 1-208 (conciliar); Photius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters); Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history); Vita Ignatii Patriarchae, by Nicetas (BHG 817), PG 105.488-574) (hagiography) |
Eulampios 1 was bishop of Apamea (ὁ Ἀπαμείας Εὐλάμπιος - no specific word for "bishop" is given); he was one of the opponents of the patriarch Ignatios 1 who, together with Petros 74 (Petros of Sardis), were associated with Gregorios Asbestas (Gregorios 26) and refused to communicate (in the period 847/858): Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 512C.
Bishop of Apamea; he was one of a number of bishops against whom charges (unspecified) were brought and who associated with Photios 1 (the future patriarch), meeting at Photios 1's house in Constantinople and scheming against the patriarch Ignatios 1 (847-858); they were all condemned by a synod held in Constantinople (cf. Gregorios 26, Petros 33, Petros 74): Ps.-Symeon 671. The story forms part of an account which is very hostile to Photios 1 and favourable to Ignatios 1.
Archbishop (presumably of Apamea) and skeuophylax; he was the addressee of a number of letters from the patriarch Photius 1, one (Ep. 95) dateable c. 870, another (Ep. 184) dateable c. 868/871; the others are all undateable and are theological in content: Photius, Ep. 75 (I 117 Laourdas-Westerink), Ep. 95 (I 131 Laourdas-Westerink), Ep. 127 (I 165ff. Laourdas-Westerink), Ep. 181 (II 70f. Laourdas-Westerink), Ep. 182 (II 71f. Laourdas-Westerink), Ep. 184 (II 74 Laourdas-Westerink), Ep. 210 (II 109ff. laourdas-Westerink) (all addressed Εὐλαμπίῳ ἀρχιεπισκόπῳ καὶ σκευοφύλακι or similar). He was probably skeuophylax of the Great Church.
Together with Gregorios 26 and Photios 1 he was deposed and anathematised by Ignatios 1 at the anti-Photian Council on 29 October 869; previously, on 24 October, he had spoken out at the Council on behalf of Photian bishops: Mansi XVI 88B-D, 133C. He was perhaps dead by November 879, when the archbishop of Apamea was Sophronios: Mansi XVI 381D. See Grumel, Regestes, 445,447,448. His see was presumably Apamea in Bithynia.
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