Kallistos 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VIII |
Dates | 787 (taq) / 787 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 3599 |
Variant Names | Callistus |
Religion | Christian; Iconophile |
Locations | Eudokias (Pamphylia) (officeplace); Eudokias (Pamphylia); Nikaia |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Eudokias (Pamphylia) (office) |
Textual Sources | Nikaia, Second Council of (Seventh Ecumenical Council, a. 787) (Mansi XII-XIII) (conciliar) |
Kallistos 3 was bishop of Eudokias in Pamphylia; in 787 he attended the Second Council of Nikaia (the Seventh Ecumenical Council) and is attested at the fourth and seventh sessions, on 1 October and 13 October 787; he perhaps attended the last five sessions, from 1 October to 23 November 787: Mansi XIII 149-486. In the list of those present at the seventh session he is styled Καλλίστου ἐπισκόπου Εὐδοκιάδος: Mansi XIII 372. Elsewhere he is styled Κάλλιστος ἐπίσκοπος πόλεως Εὐδοκιάδος or similar: Mansi XIII 149, XIII 396 (ἀνάξιος ἐπίσκοπος πόλεως Εὐδοκιάδων). At the fourth session he subscribed the statements read out from the Fathers in support of the veneration of icons: Mansi XIII 149. At the seventh session he subscribed the statement of the faith adopted by the Council: Mansi XIII 396.
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