Petros 5 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 743 (taq) / 743 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 5999 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Damascus (officeplace); Damascus; Arabia Felix (exileplace); Yemen (exileplace) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Bishop, Damascus (office) |
| Textual Sources | Chronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle); Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Petros 5 was the metropolitan bishop of Damascos (Πέτρον, τὸν ἁγιώτατον μητροπολίτην Δαμασκοῦ); in 743 he spoke out strongly against "the impiety of the Arabs and the Manichees" and for this the caliph al-Walid II (Walid 2) had his tongue cut out and banished him to Arabia Felix; there he died a martyr's death, having clearly spoken the liturgy in spite of his affliction, according to persons who were present: Theoph. AM 6234, cf. Chron. 1234, §168 (p. 314) ("in this year the bishop of the Chalcedonians of Damascos, who "had insulted the prophet of the Arabs", was delivered up to Walid the king. His tongue was cut out, and he was exiled to the land of Yemen").
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