Agapetos 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E IX |
Dates | 821 (taq) / 821 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 119 |
Religion | Christian; Iconophile |
Locations | Cherson (Tauric Chersonese) (exileplace); Cherson (Tauric Chersonese) (residence); Cherson (Tauric Chersonese); Constantinople |
Occupation | Monk |
Textual Sources | Theodorus Studita, Epistulae, ed. G. Fatouros, CFHB 31.1-2 (Berlin/New York, 1992) (letters) |
A monk (Ἀγαπητὸν τὸν αἰδεσιμώτατον μοναστὴν: p. 611, lines 4-5); he is mentioned in a letter written by Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite), soon after the death of Leo V (Leo 15), to bishops in exile at Cherson; a fellow exile of theirs (ἕνα τῶν συνδεδιωγμένων ἀδελφῶν: p. 611, line 4), he was sent by them to Constantinople to learn the state of affairs after the death of Leo; while there he met the exiled patriarch Nikephoros 2 as well as Theodoros 15; on his return with this letter (τὸν γραμματηφόρον: p. 612, line 33), he also took gifts from Theodoros for the bishops: Theod.Stud. Ep. 435, pp. 611-612 (c.
821; addressed ἐπισκόποις τοῖς διὰ Κύριον φυγαδευθεῖσιν ἐν Χερσῶνι).
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