Sophronios 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L IX |
Dates | 859 (tpq) / 886 (taq) |
Religion | Christian |
Occupation | Monk |
Textual Sources | Photius, 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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