Pentasios 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates645 (taq) / 646 (tpq)
PmbZ No.5899
Variant NamesPentasius
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsRome;
Turrium Tamat ecclesia (Byzacena);
Turrium Tamat ecclesia (Byzacena) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Turrium Tamat ecclesia (Byzacena) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Pentasios 1 was bishop of Ecclesia Turrium Tamat 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 thirty-eighth: Conc. Lat., p. 79, line 19 ("Pentasius gratia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Turrium Tamat"). For the identification of the see as Turris Tamalleni, by Maier, see Conc. Lat., p. 79, note.

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