Markos 5

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates826 (taq)
PmbZ No.4837
ReligionChristian
LocationsStoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople);
Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) (residence)
OccupationMonk
Textual SourcesTheodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters)

Markos 5 was a Stoudite monk, mentioned in a sermon of Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite) written between 815 and 826, when Markos 5 was already dead; he is said to have been a very submissive monk who accepted criticism as a positive contribution: Theod. Stud., Catech. Parva 38.

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