Paulos 27 was bishop of Plousias (in the Boukellarion theme); in 824 he was one of those who waited at the sea-shore for the ship that brought the body of Niketas 43 back to Medikion: Vita Nicetae Medicii (AASS, April I) 48 (σὺν τῷ ὁσιωτάτῳ Παύλῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Πλουσιάδος). Bishop of Plousias in the Boukellarion theme (ἐπίσκοπός τις τῆς χώρας τῶν Βουκελλαρίων, ἐπισκοπῆς Πλουσιάδος, Παῦλος καλούμενος); he was an iconophile and was exiled when the persecution of iconophiles was resumed under the emperor Theophilos (Theophilos 5) (in 832/833); he then lived in Bithynia, with the hegoumenos Klemens 1, not far from the contemplative Iakobos 5; Paulos 27 fell gravely ill with a burning fever and after eighteen days with neither food nor sleep he sent for Peter of Atroa (Petros 34; died in 837), who blessed him and some food and cured him: Vita Petr. Atr. 68, p. 197. Plousias was a suffragan of Claudiopolis in Honorias; see Laurent, La Vie merveilleuse, p. 196, n. 2. The MS has "Prousiados", but a marginal note corrects to "Plousiados". Former bishop of Plousias, some time after the death of Iakobos 5, probably in the late 830s, Paulos 27 regularly entertained Antonios the Younger (Antonios 12) and Theodoros 111 (whose name under religion was Sabas), then living at Briles in Bithynia, near a chapel of St Panteleemon: Vita Anton. Iun. (BHG 142) 41-43, (BHG 143) 5.

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