Leo 89

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitVIII
PmbZ No.4273
ReligionChristian
LocationsTauromenion (Sicily) (officeplace);
Tauromenion (Sicily)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Tauromenion (Sicily) (office)
Textual SourcesCorpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, Vol. IV, ed. A. Boeckh and others (epigraphy)
Seal SourcesLaurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981);
Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884)

Leo 89 was bishop of Tauromenion; owner of a seal dateable to the eighth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 897 = Schlumberger, Sig., p. 232, no. 3 = CIG IV 9029. Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει, with the legend τοῦ δούλου σου +. Rev.: +- Λέοντ(ος) - επισκόπ(ου) - [τ]οῦ Ταυρ - [ομε]νι[ου]. Laurent preferred the eighth century to Schlumberger's suggestion of the ninth.

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