Optatos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VII |
| Dates | 645 (taq) / 646 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 5659 |
| Variant Names | Optatus |
| Religion | Anti-monothelete |
| Locations | Antecensis ecclesia (Byzacena); Antecensis ecclesia (Byzacena) (officeplace) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Bishop, Antecensis ecclesia (Byzacena) (office) |
| Textual Sources | Lateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar) |
Optatos 1 was bishop of Ecclesia Antecensis in Byzacena; in 645/646 he subscribed the letter sent from the bishops of Byzacena to the emperor Constans II (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 seventeenth: Conc. Lat., p. 77, line 33 ("
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