Benediktos 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L VII
Dates680 (taq) / 680 (tpq)
PmbZ No.994
Variant NamesBenedictus
ReligionChristian;
Anti-monothelete
LocationsAlba Pompeia (Alpes Cottiae) (officeplace);
Alba Pompeia (Alpes Cottiae) (residence);
Alba Pompeia (Alpes Cottiae);
Rome
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Alba Pompeia (Alpes Cottiae) (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)

Benediktos 2 (Benedictus) was bishop of "Balbensum" ("Valvensis"), probably Alba Pompeia in the Alpes Cottiae, since he is named in a list of bishops all from that area; 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. 150, lines 14-16 (= Mansi XI 307-308) (Βενέδικτος ἐλάχιστος ἐπίσκοπος τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Βανδένσου; the old Latin version printed in Riedinger calls him "Benedictus humilis episcopus sanctae ecclesiae Ualetensis"). The name Valvae is not recorded; however, Benediktos 2 is listed among a group of bishops from the cities and towns of north-west Italy, from which Alba is missing. The name of Alba can conjecturally be restored.

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