Galatios 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VIII |
Dates | 787 (taq) / 787 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 1927 |
Variant Names | Galata |
Religion | Christian; Iconophile |
Locations | Regium (Bruttium); Regium (Bruttium) (residence); Regium (Bruttium); Nikaia |
Occupation | Priest |
Titles | Priest, Regium (Bruttium) (office) |
Textual Sources | Nikaia, Second Council of (Seventh Ecumenical Council, a. 787) (Mansi XII-XIII) (conciliar) |
Galatios 2 was a priest; in 787 he attended the Second Council of Nikaia (the Seventh Ecumenical Council) and is attested at the second session, where he represented the bishop of Regium (Bruttium) (Konstantinos 35); he spoke in support of the traditional veneration of icons as described in statements from pope Hadrian I (Hadrianos 1) and condemned iconoclasts: Mansi XII 1098 (Γαλάτιος πρεσβύτερος καὶ ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ ὁσιώτατου ἐπισκόπου τοῦ Ῥηγίου; the Latin version (Mansi XII 1097) calls him "
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