Ioannes 25

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L VII
Dates680 (taq) / 688 (tpq)
PmbZ No.3411
Variant NamesIohannes
ReligionChristian;
Anti-monothelete
LocationsTicinum (N. Italy);
Bergomum (Italy) (officeplace);
Bergomum (Italy);
Rome
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Bergomum (Italy) (office)
Textual SourcesConstantinople, Third Council of (Sixth Ecumenical Council), ed. R. Riedinger, Concilium Universale Constantinopolitanum Tertium, ACO II.2. 1 (Berlin, 1990-1992); also cited from Mansi XI passim (conciliar);
Paulus Diaconus, Historia Gentis Langobardorum, ed. L. Bethmann and G. Waitz, MGH, Scr. Rer. Lang., pp. 12-187; also in MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 48, pp. 49-242 (history)

Ioannes 25 was bishop of Bergomum (Bergamo); he was one of the hundred and twenty-five Western bishops who attended the Council of Rome at Easter 680, and who subscribed the decree condemning monotheletism: Riedinger II 2. 148, lines 19-21 (= Mansi XI 305-306) (Ἰωάννης ἀνάξιος ἐπίσκοπος ἐκκλησίας Βεργομάνης; the old Latin version printed in Riedinger II 2. 149, line 17, calls him "Ioannes indignus episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Pergamatis"). The bishop of Bergomum, he is described as a man of wonderful sanctity ("Iohannes episcopus Bergomatis vir mirae sanctitatis"); he allegedly once offended king Cunincpert 1 at a banquet (presumably in the palace) and as punishment was sent home by the king on a wild and unbroken horse; as soon as he mounted it the horse grew quiet and bore him peacefully home; the king made him a gift of the horse and thereafter treated him with all respect: Paul. Diac., Hist. Lang. VI 8. If the anecdote relates to the sole rule of Cunincpert 1, the date is not before 688.

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