Ioannes 189 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L IX |
| PmbZ No. | 3324 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Regium (Bruttium) (officeplace); Regium (Bruttium) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Archbishop, Calabria (Regium) (office) |
| Seal Sources | Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981); Salinas, A., "Piombi antichi", Atti della Reale Accademia dei Lincei (1894), pp. 409-427; Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884) |
Ioannes 189 was archbishop of Calabria; owner of a seal dateable to the second half of the ninth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 910 = Schlumberger, Sig., p. 231 and Salinas, "Piombi antichi", p. 412 (two identical specimens) . Obv.: Virgin and Child, with the invocative monogram Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: +Ἰωάν - νῃ ἀρχιεπ - [ι]σκόπῳ Κα - λαυρία(ς). Laurent proposed a date after Leontios 14 (attested in 869/870) and before the restoration of Photios (in 877); see Laurent, op. cit., p. 716, note.
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