Prokopios 5

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VIII
Dates787 (taq) / 787 (tpq)
Variant NamesProcopius
ReligionChristian
LocationsConstantinople (residence);
Constantinople
TitlesSilentiarios (office)
Textual SourcesNikaia, Second Council of (Seventh Ecumenical Council, a. 787) (Mansi XII-XIII) (conciliar)

Prokopios 5 was a silentiarios who lived in Constantinople; in 787 a codex of the works of Anastasios of Antioch was discovered in his house by Ioannes 15, priest and representative of the eastern see of Antioch at the Second Council of Nikaia (the Seventh Ecumenical Council), and taken to the Council to be read out at the fourth session: Mansi XIII 53 (τὸ βιβλίον τοῦτο, τίμιοι πατέρες, ἐν τῇ βασιλίδι πόλει εὕρηκα παρ̀α τῷ κύρῳ Προκοπίῳ τῷ σιλεντιαρίῳ).

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