Noumidios 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates645 (taq) / 646 (tpq)
Variant NamesNumidius
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsSofiana Iunci (Byzacena);
Sofiana Iunci (Byzacena) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Sofiana Iunci (Byzacena) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Noumidios 1 was bishop of Sofiana Iunci in Byzacena; in 645/646 he subscribed the letter sent from the bishops of Byzacena to the emperor Constans (Konstans 1) asking him to persuade the patriarch of Constantinople, Paulos 2, to abandon the monothelete heresy; the letter was read out at the Lateran Council in October 649; in the list of signatures his name appears fortieth: Conc. Lat., p. 79, line 21 ("Numidius humilis episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Sofianae Iuncis").

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