Hilarion 9

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VIII/E IX
PmbZ No.2587
ReligionIconophile
LocationsPelekete (Monastery of, Bithynia) (officeplace)
OccupationHegoumenos
TitlesHegoumenos, Pelekete (Bithynia) (office)
Textual SourcesMenologium Basilii, PG 117. 20-613 (hagiography);
Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, Propylaeum ad AASS Novembris, ed. H. Delehaye, (Brussels, 1902) (hagiography)

Hilarion 9 was hegoumenos of the monastery of Pelekete, between the mid eighth and the early ninth century; he was a supporter of the veneration of icons and is celebrated in the Canon of Joseph the Hymnographer (Ioseph 12) (where he is called Hilarion the Younger, ὁ νέος); miracles are said to have occurred at his tomb: Synax. Eccl. Const. 564, 5ff.; 565/566, 37; 573/4, 33; Menol. Bas. 376A; Canon of Joseph the Hymnographer, ed. E. I. Tomadakes, Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ὑμνογράφος. Βίος καὶ ἔργον (Athens, 1971), p. 152, no. 219.

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