Georgios 23 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L VII |
Dates | 681 (taq) / 692 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 1981 |
Variant Names | Georgius |
Religion | Christian; Anti-monothelete |
Locations | Miletos (Caria) (officeplace); Constantinople; Miletos (Caria) |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Miletos (Caria) (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); Trullo, (Quinisext) Council in, List of bishops, ed. H. Ohme, Das Concilium Quinisextum und seine Bischofsliste: Studien zum Konstantinopeler Konzil von 692, (Berlin, 1990), pp. 145-170; Mansi XI (conciliar) |
Georgios 23 was bishop of Miletos in Caria; in 681 he attended the Third Council of Constantinople (the Sixth Ecumenical Council) and was present at the last eight sessions (sessions eleven to eighteen, from March 20 to September 16): Riedinger, pp. 404-825 (= Mansi XI 457-673). In the subscriptions to the statement of the faith, which condemned monotheletism, and to the Council, he is styled Γεώργιος ἐλέει Θεοῦ ἐπίσκοπος τῆς Μιλησίων πόλεως τῆς Καρῶν ἐπαρχίας: Riedinger, p. 786, line 1, p. 825, line 15, cf. p. 893, line 28 (= Mansi XI 645, 673, cf. 693). In the lists of those attending each session he is styled Γεωργίου ἐπισκόπου Μιλήτου: Riedinger, p. 404, line 15, p. 518, line 6 etc. (= Mansi XI 457, 520, etc.). His name has fallen out of the list for the seventeenth session (column 623), and the text should be emended to read "
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