Markos 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | IX/X |
Religion | Christian |
Locations | Hydruntum (Calabria) (officeplace); Hydruntum (Calabria) |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Hydruntum (Calabria) (office) |
Seal Sources | Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981) |
Markos 3 was archbishop of Hydruntum; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth or tenth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 921. Obv.: Virgin holding medallion of the Child, with the invocative legend Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: +Μαρκω - αρχιεπισκ - οπω Ιδρου - ντας+. Laurent notes two archbishops of Otranto called Markos; one was at the Photian Synod of 879/880 (see Mansi XVII A, 373 D), the other lived in the early tenth, a poet and monk; see Laurent, op. cit., p. 728, note.
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