Sisinnios 27

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VIII
Dates754 (taq) / 762 (tpq)
Variant NamesSisinnius
ReligionChristian;
Iconoclast
LocationsPerge (Pamphylia) (officeplace);
Perge (Pamphylia);
Hieria (Constantinople);
Constantinople;
Chrysopolis (Bithynia)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Perge (Pamphylia) (office)
Textual SourcesNikaia, Second Council of (Seventh Ecumenical Council, a. 787) (Mansi XII-XIII) (conciliar);
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);
Vita Stephani Iunioris, by Stephanus Diaconus (BHG 1666), ed. M.-F. Auzépy, La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le diacre. Introduction, édition et traduction (Aldershot, 1997); PG 100. 1069-1186 (hagiography);
Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history)

Sisinnios 27 was also called Pastillas; the bishop of Perge (in Pamphylia), in 754 he presided over the iconoclast Council of Hieria, summoned by the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), with the bishops of Ephesos and Pisidia, Theodosios 3 and Basilios 29: Mansi XII 1010 (ἧς ἔξηρχε ... Σισίννιος ὁ Πέργης ὁ ἐπίκλην Παστιλλᾶς), Theoph. AM 6245 (Παστιλλᾶς ὁ Πέργης), cf. Zon. XV 6. 8. At the Second Council of Nikaia he was quoted by the bishop of Synnada, Michael 6, as saying that those who interpreted Scripture wrongly were anathema, to which Tarasios 1 rejoined that his efforts had rebounded on his own head: Mansi XIII 189 (ὁ Παστιλλᾶς; the Latin version, at XIII 190, has "Pastillarius"). Together with Theodosios 3 and Basilios 29, he is said to have led astray the patriarch of Constantinople, Konstantinos 4: Mansi XII 1010. He was among the iconoclasts anathematised by name at the seventh (13 October 787) and eighth (23 November 787) sessions of the Second Council of Nikaia: Mansi XIII 400 (Σισιννίῳ τῷ ἐπίκλην Παστιλλᾷ ἀνάθεμα), 416. Under the name Pastilas he is included among the iconoclast bishops attacked by John of Damascus, according to a speech attributed to St Stephen the Younger (Stephanos 2): Vita Steph. Iun. 126, 8-9 (1120A) (μάλιστα τοὺς ἱπποδρομικοὺς φιλάγωνας καὶ φιλοθεάμονας, Παστιλᾶν καὶ Τρικάκαβον, Νακολιάτην τε καὶ τόν φιλοδαίμονα Ἀτζύπιον); on these names see Auzépy, nn. 200-201, 212. See also Basilios 29. As a leading ecclesiastical iconoclast, he was one of the group sent by the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), probably in 762, to interview Stephanos 2 (St Stephen the Younger), then held in custody at Chrysopolis: Vita Steph. Iun. 142, 8 (1140B) (σὺν Σισιννίῳ τῷ Παστιλᾷ). See further references in Gouillard, "Le Synodikon" 296, 102, and Georg. Mon. 770, 6.

See Gero, Iconoclasm II, p. 56 n. 11, 134ff.; Rochow, Theophanes, p. 169. Possibly identical with Sisinnios 53.

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