Pantaleon 6, also called Bothros, was a synkletikos who was sent by the patriarch Photios 1 in c. 863 with Amphilochios 1 and Theodoros 132 to the island of Plate, one of the Princes' Islands, to purify (by washing forty times in sea water) an altar in a shrine of the Theotokos which had been re-erected by Ignatios 1 after being overthrown by Russian raiders (in 860): Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 532C (Πανταλέοντα συγκλητικὸν τὸν ἐπικαλούμενον Βόθρον). Probably identical with the protospatharios Pantoleon to whom were addressed two letters from the patriarch Photios 1: Photius, Ep. 22 (I 74 Laourdas-Westerink) (between 26 May 866 and 23 September 867), Ep. 168 (II 44 Laourdas-Westerink; ?859/September 867) (both addressed Παντολέοντι πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ). An elderly man: Photius, Ep. 22 (ἐπὶ βίου δυσμὰς ἥκων), Ep. 168 (πρὸς βίου βαθύνοντα πέρας). He was criticised by Photios 1 for his cruelty when punishing people by flogging: Ep. 22. Photios 1 also condemned his avarice (πλεονεξία): Ep. 168 (II 44 Laourdas-Westerink).

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