Maximos 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates817 (tpq) / 818 (taq)
PmbZ No.4923
ReligionChristian;
Iconoclast
LocationsStoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople)
OccupationMonk
Textual SourcesTheodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters)

A Stoudite monk; Maximos 2 is named together with Leontios 29 and Klemens 1 in a letter of Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite), as monks who had deserted the cause of icon veneration: Theod. Stud., Ep. 302, pp. 444-445 (dateable after the winter of 817/818). One of the unnamed followers of Leontios 29; according to Theodoros 15 they should be forgiven if they repented: Theod. Stud., Ep. 326, pp. 467-468.

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