Leo 49

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VIII
Dates787 (taq) / 787 (tpq)
PmbZ No.4348
ReligionChristian;
Iconophile
LocationsHerakleia (Thrace) (officeplace);
Herakleia (Thrace);
Nikaia
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Herakleia (Thrace) (office)
Textual SourcesNikaia, Second Council of (Seventh Ecumenical Council, a. 787) (Mansi XII-XIII) (conciliar)
Seal SourcesDumbarton Oaks, A Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, eds., J. Nesbitt and N. Oikonomides (Washington, DC, 1991-);
Ebersolt, J. "Sceaux byzantins du Musée de Constantinople", RN 4.18 (1914), pp. 207-243, 377-409;
Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981);
Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972).

Leo 49 was bishop of Herakleia in Thrace (in Europa); 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 probably attended the last five sessions, from 1 October to 23 November 787: Mansi XIII 136-486. In the list of those present at the seventh session he is styled Λέοντος ἐπισκόπου Ἡρακλείας τῆς Θρᾴκης: Mansi XIII 365. Elsewhere he is styled Λέων ἐπίσκοπος Ἡρακλείας Θρᾴκης or similar: Mansi XIII 136, 380. At the fourth session he subscribed the statements read out from the Fathers in support of the veneration of icons: Mansi XIII 136. At the seventh session he subscribed the statement of the faith adopted by the Council: Mansi XIII 380.

Owner of three seals dateable to the eighth century: DOSeals I 53.6 = Zacos and Veglery 2124, Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 300 and Ebersolt, "Sceaux byzantins", pp. 383-384, no. 433, with fig. 4 (and see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DO Seals I, p. 137, note, on the identity of these seals). All three seals are from the same boulloterion. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει and the legend τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: Λέωντι μητροπολίτῃ Ἡρακλήας.

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