Georgios 279 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII/E IX |
| PmbZ No. | 2201 |
| Religion | Iconophile |
| Locations | Antioch (Pisidia) (officeplace) |
| Titles | Bishop, Antioch (Pisidia (office) |
| Textual Sources | Menologium Basilii, PG 117. 20-613 (hagiography); Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, Propylaeum ad AASS Novembris, ed. H. Delehaye, (Brussels, 1902) (hagiography) |
Georgios 279 was dedicated to the service of God as a child and went on to become a monk; later he became bishop of Antioch in Pisidia; when the veneration of icons was banned by a council (either in 754 or in 815, it is uncertain which) he was summoned to Constantinople and then exiled from his see after refusing to support the iconoclast decrees; he died in exile: Synax. Eccl. Const. 617, 5-18; 609/10, 53; 611/612, 39-45; 615/616, 36ff., 50; Menol. Bas. 412CD.
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