Zosimas 5 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 815 (taq) / 816 (ob.) |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Textual Sources | Theodorus Studita, Catechesis Parva, ed. E. Auvray (Paris, 1891) (homiletics); Theodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters) |
Zosimas 5 was a Stoudite monk; he perished with his fellow-monk Gaianos 1 in a shipwreck during winter 815/816 while they were carrying letters from Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite); they are mentioned in letters of Theodoros 15 written in summer 816: Theod. Stud., Ep. 114 (deaths of Zosimas 5 and Gaianos 1, while sailing in winter; μετὰ Ζωσιμᾶ καὶ Γαϊανὸν τὸν θαυμάσιον, τοὺς ἴσους ἀδελφοὺς τῷ πνεύματι ὡς καὶ τὰ σώματα), cf. Ep. 112 (δυὰς τῶν πρὶν ἐπιστοληφόρων ... ὑποβρύχιος γέγονεν), Ep. 153 (τὸ πὰθος τῶν δύο ἀδελφῶν). Possibly identical with the dead Stoudite monk Zosimas mentioned as an example to be followed in one of Theodoros 15's sermons: Theod. Stud., Catech. Parva 38 (p. 141 Auvray).
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