Leo 28

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE/M IX
Dates833 (taq) / 832 (tpq)
PmbZ No.4425
ReligionIconoclast
LocationsProusa (Bithynia) (officeplace);
Prousa (Bithynia)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Prousa (Bithynia) (office)
Textual SourcesVita Petri Atroensis, by Sabas the monk (BHG 2364), ed. V. Laurent, La Vie merveilleuse de Saint Pierre d'Atroa, Subsidia Hagiographica 29 (Brussels, 1956) (hagiography)

Leo 28 was bishop of Prousa (Broussa) (in Bithynia) under the emperor Theophilos 5; an iconoclast, when persecution resumed in 832/833 he persecuted iconophiles, including Peter of Atroa (Petros 34) and his monks; when he arrived at their monastery (St Zacharias), however, they had already scattered: Vita Petr. Atr. 63, pp. 187-189 (τὸν τὴν Προυσαέων χώραν κρατοῦντα ψευδεπίσκοπον Λέοντα). He is not otherwise recorded; cf. Laurent, p. 187, note 4.

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