Politianos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII/E IX |
| Dates | 768 (taq) / 813 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 6313 |
| Variant Names | Apolinarios |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Alexandria (Egypt); Alexandria (Egypt) (officeplace) |
| Occupation | Bishop; Doctor |
| Titles | Archbishop, Alexandria (Egypt) (office); Bishop, Alexandria (Egypt) (office); Patriarch, Alexandria (Egypt) (office) |
| Textual Sources | Eutychius, Annales, Latin tr. in PG 111. 907-1156;Das Annalenwerk des Eutychius von Alexandrien. ...kompiliert von Sa'îd ibn Batrîq CSCO 471-472; Eutychii PatriarchaeAlexandrini Annales CSCO 50-51 (chronicle); Photius, Epistulae, ed. B. Laourdas and L. G. Westerink, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1983-85) (letters); Vita Tarasii by Ignatius the Deacon, ed. I. A. Heikel, Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 17 (1891), pp. 395-423; new ed. S. Efthymiadis, The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios the Deacon, (hagiography) |
Politianos 1 was patriarch of Alexandria in 787; he was represented at the Seventh Ecumenical Council by his synkellos, the monk and priest Thomas 4: Ignatios, Vita Tarasii 28, cf. Photius, Ep. 1, lines 374ff. (where his name is given as Apolinarios). See Thomas 4. He was patriarch from 768 to 813; Grumel, Chronologie, p. 443. According to Eutychius, he was a doctor: Eutychius Alex. (PG 111. 1125C ("
Politianos 1 became patriarch of Alexandria in the fourth year of the caliph al-Mansur (al-Mansour 1) (actually 768, the fourteenth year): Eutychius Alex. 1125C. He was the Melkite patriarch, and, allegedly after he managed to win the favour of al-Rashid, the churches in Egypt seized by the Jacobite church were restored to the Melkites: Eutychius Alex. 1127D-1128A. He was patriarch for forty-six years: Eutychius Alex. 1125C, 1128A. His successor was called Eustathios: Eutychius Alex. 1128A (in the sixteenth year of al-Rashid).
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