Sophronios 3

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L IX
Dates859 (tpq) / 886 (taq)
ReligionChristian
OccupationMonk
Textual SourcesPhotius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters)

Sophronios 3 was a monk and the addressee of a letter from the patriarch Photius (Photios 1), in which he is encouraged to avoid sin; the date of the letter is uncertain, and so was between 859 and 886: Photius, Ep. 43 (I 90 Laourdas-Westerink) (addressed Σωφρονίῳ μονάζοντι).

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