Georgios 68 was bishop of Antiocheia in Pisidia; in 787 he attended the Second Council of Nikaia (the Seventh Ecumenical Council). A former iconoclast, he was brought before the first session of the Council, on 24 September 787, with fellow bishops and iconoclasts (see Hypatios 1) for examination to determine if as former heretics they could be readmitted to communion: Mansi XII 1015. They had all taken part in the disruption of the Council summoned at Constantinople in the previous year: Mansi XII 1015-1018. See further Hypatios 1. At the end of the session Georgios 68 and the others read out their statements of repentance accepting the veneration of icons, all identical with the previous statement read by the bishop of Ankyra, Basilios 21; the decision whether to readmit them was then postponed to a later session: Mansi XII 1050. He is styled Γεώργιος ὁ εὐλαβέστατος ἐπίσκοπος Πισιδίας (sic) at Mansi XII 1015; and Γεώργιος ἐπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας Πισιδίας at Mansi XII 1050. He is not recorded with the others when they were readmitted at the third session of the Council and allowed to take their seats (see Mansi XII 1119), but was evidently readmitted (see below); his name has perhaps been omitted from the text at 1119 by mistake. Later in the third session he spoke with others present and accepted as orthodox the statements of the faith contained in letters from Tarasios 1 and the eastern patriarchs and also condemned iconoclasts: Mansi XII 1151 (Γεώργιος ὁ ὁσιώτατος ἐπίσκοπος Πισιδίας). He is attested at the fourth and seventh sessions, on 1 October and 13 October 787; he was probably present at the last five sessions, from 1 October to 23 November 787: Mansi XIII 137-486. In the lists of those present at the seventh session he is styled Γεωργίου ἐπισκόπου Ἀντιοχείας τῆς Πισιδίας: Mansi XIII 365. Elsewhere he is styled Γεώργιος ἀνάξιος ἐπίσκοπος Ἀντιοχείας Πισιδίας or similar: Mansi XIII 137, 381. At the fourth session he subscribed the statements read out from the Fathers in support of the veneration of icons: Mansi XIII 137. At the seventh session he subscribed the statement of the faith adopted by the Council: Mansi XIII 381.

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