Antonios 39 was hegoumenos of the monastery of Hagios Petros, he was the addressee of a letter from Theodore the Stoudite (Theodoros 15), written in early 812; he had suffered persecution during the Moechian schism and took a stronger line even than Theodoros 15 towards those who supported the synod; he had written to Theodoros 15 who replied to him and those with him trying to soften his attitude towards the patriarch Nikephoros 2; he is styled τῆς πατρικῆς ὑμῶν ἁγιωσύνης and he and his colleagues are addressed as ὦ ἀδελφοὶ τιμιώτατοι καὶ πατέρες σεβασμιώτατοι: Theod. Stud., Ep. 56 (addressed Ἀντωνίῳ ἡγουμένῳ τοῦ Ἁγίου Πέτρου καὶ τοῖς σὺν αὐτῷ). The monastery was perhaps at Poimanina; see Fatouros, pp. 200*f., n. 196, Janin, Centres, p. 207.

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