Paulos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VII/E VIII |
| PmbZ No. | 5812 |
| Religion | Paulician |
| Ethnicity | Armenian |
| Locations | Armenia (birthplace); Episparis (Armenia); Episparis (Armenia) (residence); Soros (Armenia) (residence); Soros (Armenia) |
| Textual Sources | Peter of Sicily, Historia chreiodes, ed. D. Papachryssanthou, in C. Astruc et al., "Les sources grecques pour l'histoire des Pauliciens d'Asie Mineure", TM 4 (1970), pp. 3-67 (history) |
Paulos 1 was an Armenian and a Paulician (Manichee); he was one of the few to escape from the persecution of "Manichees" by Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) at Soros (near Koloneia); he escaped with his two sons Gegnesios 1 and Theodoros 1 to a place called Episparis; there he made his son Gegnesios 1 head of "the school of atheism" (εἰς τὸ τῆς ἀθεότητος διδασκαλεῖον) and renamed him Timotheos: Peter of Sicily, 112-113.
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