Elpidios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E VIII |
Dates | 712 (taq) / 712 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 1513 |
Religion | Monothelete |
Locations | Constantinople; Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) (officeplace); Constantinople (residence); Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) |
Occupation | Deacon |
Titles | Deacon, Hagia Sophia (Constantinople) (office) |
Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Elpidios 1 was a deacon of the Great Church (Hagia Sophia) (διάκονον τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας); he attended the Council summoned by the emperor Philippikos 1 in 712 to reject the Sixth Ecumenical Council and reaffirm monotheletism: Theoph. AM 6204.
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