Ioannes 185

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M IX
PmbZ No.3224
ReligionChristian
LocationsChaldia (officeplace);
Chaldia;
Trapezous;
Trapezous (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Chaldia (office)
Seal SourcesLaurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981)

Ioannes 185 was bishop of Chaldia; owner of a seal dateable to the early ninth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 659. Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει. Rev.: [+][Ι]ωα[ν] - .η επης - κοπο Χα - λδηας. The name and title read: Ἰωάννῃ ἐπισκόπῳ Χαλδίας. On the title and the name of the bishopric, see Laurent, op. cit., pp. 496-497, note. His see was at Trebizond.

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