Ianouarios 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates645 (taq) / 645 (tpq)
PmbZ No.2647
Variant NamesIanuarius
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsGatianesis ecclesia (Byzacena);
Gatianesis ecclesia (Byzacena) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Gatianesis ecclesia (Byzacena) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Ianouarios 2 was bishop of Ecclesia Gatianesis in Byzacena; in 645/646 he subscribed the letter sent from the bishops of Byzacena to the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1) asking him to persuade the patriarch of Constantinople, Paulos 2, to abandon the monothelete heresy; the letter was read out at the Lateran Council in October 649; in the list of signatures his name appears sixth: Conc. Lat., p. 77, line 20 ("Ianuarius gratia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Gatianesis").

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