Philoxenos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX/X |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Magnesia (Asia); Magnesia (Asia) (officeplace) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Bishop, Magnesia ad Maeandrum or ad Sipylum (Asia) (office) |
| Seal Sources | Konstantipoulos, K.M., Byzantiaka Molybdoboulla tou en Athenais Ethnikou Nomismatikou Mouseiou (Athens, 1917); repr. from JIAN 5-10 (1902-07); Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981) |
Philoxenos 1 was bishop of Magnesia (whether ad Maeandrum or ad Sipylum is not clear); owner of a seal dateable to the second half of the ninth or the tenth century (the form of the beta first appears in the mid ninth): Laurent, Corpus V 1, 270 = Konstantopoulos, JIAN 9, 131a. Obv.: bust of St Quadratus with the legend ὁ ἅγιος Κοδρᾶτος and the invocative formula Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: +Φιλο - ξενω ε - [π]ισκοπω - Μαγνις - ηας. St Quadratus (Kodratos) was bishop of Magnesia, but the sources do not say which one.
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