Phortounios 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitM VII
Dates645 (taq) / 646 (tpq)
PmbZ No.1910
Variant NamesFortunius
ReligionChristian;
Anti-monothelete
LocationsCellensis ecclesia (Byzacena);
Cellensis ecclesia (Byzacena) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Cellensis ecclesia (Byzacena) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Phortounios 2 was bishop of Ecclesia Cellensis 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 eleventh: Conc. Lat., p. 77, line 27 ("Fortunius gratia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Cellensis").

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