Zemarchos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L VII |
Dates | 681 (taq) / 692 (tpq) |
Variant Names | Zemarkos; Zemarcus |
Religion | Christian; Anti-monothelete |
Locations | Sidyma (Lycia); Constantinople; Sidyma (Lycia) (officeplace) |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Sidyma (Lycia) (office) |
Textual Sources | Constantinople, Third Council of (Sixth Ecumenical Council), ed. R. Riedinger, Concilium Universale Constantinopolitanum Tertium, ACO II.2. 1 (Berlin, 1990-1992); also cited from Mansi XI passim (conciliar); Trullo, (Quinisext) Council in, List of bishops, ed. H. Ohme, Das Concilium Quinisextum und seine Bischofsliste: Studien zum Konstantinopeler Konzil von 692, (Berlin, 1990), pp. 145-170; Mansi XI (conciliar) |
Zemarchos 1 was bishop of Sidyma in Lycia; in 681 he attended the Third Council of Constantinople (the Sixth Ecumenical Council) and was present at two of the last three sessions (sessions sixteen and eighteen, on 9 August and 16 September 681): Riedinger, pp. 692-827 (= Mansi XI 616-678). In the subscriptions to the statement of the faith, which condemned monotheletism, he is styled Ζήμαρχος ἐλέει Θεοῦ ἐπίσκοπος πόλεως Σιδύμων: Riedinger, p. 792, line 28 (= Mansi XI 652). The old Latin version calls his see "ciuitatis Sidimorum": Riedinger, p. 793, line 31 (= Mansi XI 651). In the signatures to the Council he is styled Ζήμαρχος ἐλέει Θεοῦ ἐπίσκοπος Σιδύμων τῆς Λυκαονίας: Riedinger, p. 827, line 31 (= Mansi XI 677). The old Latin version here, available only in the Mansi edition, calls his see "civitatis Sidymorum Lycaoniae provinciae" : Mansi XI 678. In the lists of those attending each session he is styled Ζιμάρχου ἐπισκόπου Σιδύμων: Riedinger, p. 692, line 4, p. 762, line 14 (= Mansi XI 616, 629). Sidyma was certainly in the province of Lycia, not Lycaonia; the text at Riedinger, p. 827, line 31 (= Mansi XI 677) and at Mansi XI 678 should be corrected accordingly.
Still bishop in 692, Zemarchos 1 attended the Quinisext Council in Constantinople and signed the canons: Ohme, Bischofsliste, p. 162, no. 156 (= Mansi XI 1000) (Ζήμαρχος ἐπίσκοπος πόλεως Σιδύμων ἐπαρχίας Λυκίας).
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