Leo 108 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 811 (tpq) / 813 (taq) |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Constantinople (officeplace); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
| Titles | Orphanotrophos, St Paul's (Constantinople) (office) |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Leo 108 was perhaps an orphanotrophos in the Church of St Paul in Constantinople; after a prophecy during the reign of Michael I Rhangabe (Michael 7) that the next emperor would be called Leo, the patriarch Theodotos Kassiteras (Theodotos 2) sought out Leo 108 in the belief that it applied to him and told him about it: Theoph. Cont. I 11 (pp. 22-23) (τὸν ἄνδρα, ὡς ἀκηκόει, καταλαβὼν ἐν τῷ τοῦ θείου Παύλου σηκῷ τῷ ὀρφανοὺς τρέφειν λαχόντι), cf. Zon. XV 20. 3-10 (where he is apparently regarded as identical with the future emperor Leo V (Leo 15)).
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