Ioannes 236 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| PmbZ No. | 3051 |
| Religion | Christian; Iconophile |
| Locations | Monagria (Monastery of) (residence); Monagria (Monastery of) |
| Occupation | Hegoumenos |
| Titles | Hegoumenos, Monagria (office) |
| Textual Sources | Vita Stephani Iunioris, by Stephanus Diaconus (BHG 1666), ed. M.-F. Auzépy, La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le diacre. Introduction, édition et traduction (Aldershot, 1997); PG 100. 1069-1186 (hagiography) |
Ioannes 236 was hegoumenos of the monastery of Monagria; an iconophile, he refused to trample on icons of Christ and His Mother and was arrested on the orders of the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), placed in a weighted sack and thrown into the sea to drown; named as one of the emperor's victims by Stephen the Younger (Stephanos 2) in the Praitorion prison in 764: Vita Steph. Iun. 162. 15-16 (1165D) (Ἰωάννην τὸν θεῖον ἡγούμενον τοῦ τερπνοῦ τῆς Μοναγρίας φροντιστηρίου).
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