Eustathios 58

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitE/M IX
PmbZ No.1784
OccupationMonk
TitlesArchbishop, Kios (Bithynia) (office)
Textual SourcesMenologium Basilii, PG 117. 20-613 (hagiography);
Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, Propylaeum ad AASS Novembris, ed. H. Delehaye, (Brussels, 1902) (hagiography)

Eustathios 58 was a monk who became archbishop of Kios in Bithynia; an iconophile, he suffered persecution and beatings under an iconoclast emperor, probably between 815 and 842, and was exiled from his see, dying after some years still in exile: Synax. Eccl. Const. 567/568, 37ff.; 569/570, 30-37; 572, 16ff.; 573/574, 30; Menol. Bas. 376D. He was commemorated on 28 March, 29 March and 30 March.

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