Spesindeo 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates645 (taq) / 646 (tpq)
PmbZ No.986
Variant NamesSpisindeo
ReligionAnti-monothelete
LocationsRome;
Quaestorianensis ecclesia (Byzacena);
Quaestorianensis ecclesia (Byzacena) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Quaestorianensis ecclesia (Byzacena) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Spesindeo 1's full name was Beatus Stephanus Spesindeo; he was bishop of Ecclesia Quaestorianensis 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 twenty-sixth: Conc. Lat., p. 79, lines 3-4 ("Beatus Stephanus Spisindeo misericordia dei episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Quaestorianensis").

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