Alexandros 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L VII |
Dates | 681 (taq) / 681 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 178 |
Variant Names | Alexander |
Religion | Christian; Anti-monothelete |
Locations | Kotrada (Isauria) (officeplace); Kotrada (Isauria); Constantinople |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Kotrada (Isauria) (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) |
Alexandros 2 was bishop of Kotrada in Isauria; 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): Riedinger, pp. 686-825 (= Mansi XI 613-674). In the subscriptions to the statement of the faith, which condemned monotheletism, and to the Council, he is styled Ἀλέξανδρος ἐλέει Θεοῦ ἐπίσκοπος Κοτράδων Ἰσαύρων (so 825; 786 reads: ἐπίσκοπος Κοτράδων): Riedinger, p. 786, line 9, p. 825, line 5, cf. p. 894, line 3 (= Mansi XI 645, 673, cf. 693). The old Latin version printed in Riedinger, p. 787, line 9 (= Mansi XI 646) calls his see "
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