Kandidos 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitM VII
Dates645 (taq) / 646 (tpq)
PmbZ No.1057
Variant NamesCandidus
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsRome;
Dicensis Patria (Byzacena);
Dicensis Patria (Byzacena) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Patria Dicensis (Byzacena) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Kandidos 2 was bishop of Dicensis Patria in Byzacena; in 645/646 he subscribed the letter sent from the bishops of Byzacena to the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1) asking him to persuade the patriarch of Constantinople, Paulos 2, to abandon the monothelete heresy; the letter was read out at the Lateran Council in October 649; in the list of signatures his name appears ninth: Conc. Lat., p. 77, line 25 ("Candidus gratia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae patriae Dicensis").

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