Hilarion 9 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M VIII/E IX |
PmbZ No. | 2587 |
Religion | Iconophile |
Locations | Pelekete (Monastery of, Bithynia) (officeplace) |
Occupation | Hegoumenos |
Titles | Hegoumenos, Pelekete (Bithynia) (office) |
Textual Sources | Menologium Basilii, PG 117. 20-613 (hagiography); Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, Propylaeum ad AASS Novembris, ed. H. Delehaye, (Brussels, 1902) (hagiography) |
Hilarion 9 was hegoumenos of the monastery of Pelekete, between the mid eighth and the early ninth century; he was a supporter of the veneration of icons and is celebrated in the Canon of Joseph the Hymnographer (Ioseph 12) (where he is called Hilarion the Younger, ὁ νέος); miracles are said to have occurred at his tomb: Synax. Eccl. Const. 564, 5ff.; 565/566, 37; 573/4, 33; Menol. Bas. 376A; Canon of Joseph the Hymnographer, ed. E. I. Tomadakes, Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ὑμνογράφος. Βίος καὶ ἔργον (Athens, 1971), p. 152, no. 219.
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