Leontios 32

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates649 (taq) / 649 (tpq)
PmbZ No.4601
Variant NamesLeontius
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsRome;
Nepet (Tuscia);
Nepet (Tuscia) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Naples (Campania) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Leontios 32 was bishop of Naples (in Campania); he attended all five sessions of the Lateran Council, from 5 October to 31 October 649, and in the list of bishops present is named in eighty-seventh place: Conc. Lat., p. 6, line 16 (Λεοντίου ἐπισκόπου Νεαπόλεως), p. 7, line 16 ("Leontio Neapolitano episcopo") (the first session), cf. pp. 35, 115, 181 and 251 (the Latin version only is repeated for the other sessions). At the fifth session he proposed the reading from the Acts of the Fifth Ecumenical Council of the passage ordering acceptance in full of the teachings of the Fathers and the condemnation of all who did not do so: Conc. Lat., p. 252, line 26 (Λεόντιος ὁ εὐλαβέστατος ἐπίσκοπος Νεαπόλεως) with p. 253, line 26 ("Leontius reverentissimus episcopus Neapolitane ecclesiae"), p. 254, line 4 with p. 255, line 4. He subscribed the definition of the faith agreed by the Council at its fifth session: Conc. Lat., p. 398, line 37 (Λεόντιος ἐπίσκοπος Νεαπόλεως), p. 399, line 37 ("Leontius episcopus sanctae Neapolitane ecclesiae").

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