Leo 8 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 772 (taq) / 772 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 4309 |
| Religion | Iconoclast |
| Locations | Thrakesioi |
| Occupation | Hegoumenos; Monk |
| Titles | Hegoumenos, unknown (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) |
Leo 8 was nicknamed Koutzodaktylos (Λέοντα ... τὸν Κουτζοδάκτυλον: Theoph. AM 6263); he was a former abbot (Λέοντα ἀπὸ ἀββάδων) in 772 when he was sent with Leo 7 by the strategos of the Thrakesioi, Michael 5, to sell all monasteries and convents throughout the Thrakesion theme, together with their contents: Theoph. AM 6263. See Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, pp. 76 and 153.
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