Aboundantios 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L VII
Dates680 (taq) / 681 (tpq)
PmbZ No.73
Variant NamesAbundantius
ReligionChristian;
Anti-monothelete
LocationsPaternum (Bruttium) (officeplace);
Paternum (Bruttium);
Tempsa (Bruttium);
Tempsa (Bruttium) (officeplace);
Rome;
Constantinople
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Paternum (Brittium) (office);
Bishop, Paternum (Bruttium) (office);
Bishop, Tempsa (Bruttium) (office)
Textual SourcesConstantinople, 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);
Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le liber pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92); re-issued with 3rd vol. by C. Vogel, (Paris, 1955-57) (chronicle)

Aboundantios 1 (Abundantius) was bishop of Tempsa (or possibly Paternum, see below) in Bruttium; he was one of the hundred and twenty-five Western bishops who attended the Council of Rome at Easter, 680, and who subscribed the decree condemning monotheletism: Riedinger, p. 142, line 31 (= Mansi XI 301-302) (Ἀβουνδάντιος ἐλάχιστος ἐπίσκοπος τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Τεμψάνης ἐπαρχίας Βριττίων; the Latin version in Riedinger p. 143, line 31 reads "ecclesiae Tempsanae prouinciae Brittiorum").

Later he attended the Third Council of Constantinople (the Sixth Ecumenical Council) in 680 and 681 as one of the three Italian bishops sent to represent the hundred and twenty-five bishops of the Council of Rome (the other two were Ioannes 21 and Ioannes 32); he attended all eighteen sessions of the Council: Riedinger, pp. 14-822 ( = Mansi XI 209-669). He was one of the legates sent to the Council by pope Agatho 1: Riedinger, p. 56, line 7, p. 895, line 30 ( = Mansi XI 236, 716). In the subscriptions to the statement of the faith, which condemned monotheletism, and to the Council, he is styled Ἀβουνδάντιος ἐπίσκοπος Τεμψάνης καὶ ἀποκρισιάριος πάσης τῆς συνόδου τοῦ ἁγίου καὶ ἀποστολικοῦ θρόνου πόλεως Ῥώμης (or similar): Riedinger, p. 780, line 3, p. 822, line 35, cf. p. 891, lines 23-24 ( = Mansi XI 641, 669, cf. 689). However, in the lists of those attending each session he is always described as Ἀβουνδαντίου ἐπισκόπου πόλεως Πατέρνου: Riedinger, p. 16, line 13, p. 28, line 17, etc. ( = Mansi XI 209, 217, etc.). Tempsa was situated on the West coast of Bruttium, Paternum on the East (between Roscianum and Croton), and so the names do not seem to have been alternative names for the same see. Paternum apparently receives support from the Vita of pope Agatho, written by Anastasius Bibliothecarius, which identifies the three bishops sent to Constantinople by Agatho as "Abundantium Paternensem, Ioannem Rhegitanum et Ioannem Portuensem": Mansi XI 165 = Lib. Pont. 81. 3, 82. 2. Aboundantios 1 was among those who signed the copy of the definition of the faith sent to the bishop of Rome, Agatho 1: Riedinger, p. 891, lines 23-24 ( = Mansi XI 689).

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