Anastasios 8 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L VII |
Dates | 681 (taq) / 681 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 240 |
Variant Names | Anastasius |
Religion | Christian; Anti-monothelete |
Locations | Constantinople; Apollonias (Bithynia); Apollonias (Bithynia) (officeplace) |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Apollonias (Bithynia) (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) |
Anastasios 8 was bishop of Apollonia, also called Theotokia, in Bithynia; 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. 690-827 (= Mansi XI 616- 678). In the subscriptions to the statement of the faith, which condemned monotheletism, he is styled Ἀναστάσιος ἐλέει Θεοῦ ἐπίσκοπος τῆς Θεοτοκιανῶν πόλεως τῆς Βιθυνῶν ἐπαρχίας: Riedinger, p. 790, line 21 (= Mansi XI 649). In the signatures to the Council he is styled Ἀναστάσιος ἐλέει Θεοῦ ἐπίσκοπος Θεοτοκιανῶν ἤτοι Ἀπολλωνιάδος: Riedinger, p. 827, line 18 (= Mansi XI 677). The old Latin version printed in Riedinger calls his see "
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