Eustathios 48 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Dates | 861 (tpq) / 867 (taq) |
| PmbZ No. | 1797 |
| Locations | Tyre; Tyre (officeplace); Antioch (Syria); Antioch (Syria) (officeplace); Antioch (Syria) (residence) |
| Titles | Archbishop, Antioch (office); Bishop, Antioch (office); Patriarch, Antioch (office) |
| Textual Sources | Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (chronicle); Photius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters) |
Patriarch of Antioch, Eustathios 48 was the addressee of a letter from the patriarch Photius (Photios 1), written between 861 and 867, possibly between April 862 and April 866; Photios 1 looked forward to a visit from Eustathios 48, in spite of the problems of travel; Eustathios 48 is styled σου τὴν ἱερατικὴν τελειότητα and addressed as πατέρων καὶ ἀδελφῶν ἄριστε: Photius, Ep. 11 (I 63 Laourdas-Westerink) (addressed Εὐσταθίῳ πατριάρχῃ Ἀντιοχείας). He formerly served under the metropolitan bishop of Tyre (Basilios) and after the death of the patriarch Iob 1 he was one of the rival candidates for the see of Antioch; he was the rival of Nikolaos 78: Mich. Syr. III 98. In c. 860 the patriarchate of Antioch was vacant and was under the administration of the synkellos Anonymus 602. See further the discussion in PmbZ 1797.
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