Ioannes 148

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitVII
ReligionChristian
LocationsThessalonike (officeplace);
Thessalonike
OccupationBishop
TitlesArchbishop, Thessalonike (office)
Seal SourcesDumbarton Oaks, A Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, eds., J. Nesbitt and N. Oikonomides (Washington, DC, 1991-);
Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981)

Ioannes 148 was archbishop of Thessalonike; owner of seals dateable to the seventh century: DOSeals I 18.83a (= Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 447) and b. The two seals are similar but from different boulloteria. They both read as follows (or similar): obv.: cruciform monogram of Ιωαννου, with the legend αρχιεπισκοπου; rev.: +Tessalonicae. The letters on the reverse are Latin. Two bishops of Thessalonike called Ioannes are known in the seventh century; the seals could have been owned by either Ioannes I (his episcopacy was in the reign of the emperor Heraklios; he was the collector of the Miracles of St Demetrios; he is not present in PBE) or Ioannes II (present at the Third Council of Constantinople; see Ioannes 39); see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DOSeals I, pp. 79-80, note.

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