Phortounatos 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitM VII
Dates649 (taq) / 649 (tpq)
PmbZ No.1906
Variant NamesFortunatus
ReligionAnti-monothelete;
Christian
LocationsRome;
Auximum (Pentapolis) (officeplace);
Auximum (Pentapolis)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Auximum (Pentapolis) (office)
Textual SourcesLateran Council = Concilium Lateranense anno 649 celebratum, ed. R. Riedinger, ACO II 1 (Berlin, 1984) (conciliar)

Phortounatos 1 was bishop of Auximum (in Picenum); he attended all five sessions of the Lateran Council, from 5 October to 31 October 649, and in the list of bishops present is named in forty-eighth place: Conc. Lat., p. 4, line 20 (Φορτουνάτου ἐπισκόπου Αὐσίμου), p. 5, line 20 ("Fortunato Auximate episcopo") (the first session), cf. pp. 33, 113, 179 and 249 (the Latin version only is repeated for the other sessions). He subscribed the definition of the faith agreed by the Council at its fifth session: Conc. Lat., p. 394, line 41 (Φουρτουνάτος ἐπίσκοπος Αὐσιμοῦ), p. 395, line 41 ("Fortunatus episcopus sanctae Auximatis ecclesiae").

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