Gregorios 8 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 743 (taq) / 743 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 2382 |
| Titles | Logothetes (office) |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Gregorios 8 was a logothetes (Γρηγόριον λογοθέτην) serving under the rebel Artabasdos 1, who sent him in 743 as envoy to the new caliph al-Walid II (Walid 2) to seek support against the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7): Theoph. AM 6234. At the same time Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) sent his own envoy, Andreas 4.
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