Paulos 37 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L IX |
Religion | Christian |
Locations | Thessalonike (officeplace); Thessalonike |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Thessalonike (office) |
Seal Sources | Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981) |
Paulos 37 was archbishop of Thessalonike; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 451. Obv.: Virgin with the legend Μ(ητὴ)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ and the invocative formula Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: +Πα[υ]λου - αρχιεπισκο - [π]ου Θεσσα - [λ]ονικης. Possibly identical with the bishop of Thessalonike Paulos who was a partisan of Photios 1. See further Grumel, Regestes, n. 530 (addressee of a letter from Photios 1), Mansi XVII a, col. 373E (present at the Council on 8 March 880), EO 18, 1916-1919, pp. 240, 242, 253, EO 1933, p. 301, n. 20 (mentioned in the Synodikon); cf. Paulos 36.
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