Agapios I of Antioch

Patriarch

Agapios I
Bishop of Antioch
ChurchMelkite Greek Orthodox Church
Installed952/3
Term ended959/60
SuccessorChristopher of Antioch
Personal details
ResidenceAntioch

Agapios I (Ancient Greek: Ἀγάπιος; Arabic: أغابيوس بن القبرون, Aġābiyūs b. al-Qa‘barūn), also known simply as Agapios, was the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch from approximately 953 to 959.[1]

Biography

Agapius assumed the patriarchal throne in the year 341 AH, which corresponds to the period between 29 May 952 and 17 May 953, during the seventh year of the caliphate of the Abbasid caliph Al-Muti.[2]: 769f  According to the Arabic chronicle of Yahya of Antioch, he served for seven years and died in 348 AH (between 14 March 959 and 2 March 960).[2]: 86  The Vita Christophori patriarchae confirms that he was the immediate predecessor of Patriarch Christopher.[3]: 24  In 956, Agapius was the addressee of an inaugural letter from Patriarch Polyeuctos of Constantinople. The letter was delivered by Theodoros of Nicaea shortly after Polyeuctos's accession on 3 April of that year.[1]

Notes

Agapius is omitted from the patriarchal lists compiled by Venance Grumel[4]: 134–6  and Giorgio Fedalto.[5]: 684  In these lists, as well as in the work of Jenkins and Mango,[6]: 234  a later patriarch named Agapios (who reigned from 978 to 996) is erroneously designated as "Agapios I."[7]: 184, 204 

References

  1. 1 2 "Agapios (ID 20164)". Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (PMBZ). Retrieved June 26, 2026.
  2. 1 2 Yaḥyā of Antioch (1907). Patrologia Orientalis. Vol. 18, 5. Paris: Firmin-Didot.
  3. ↑ Zayat, Habib (1952). "Vie du patriarche melkite d'Antioche Christophore (†967) par le protospathaire Ibrahim b. Yuhanna: Document inédit du Xe siècle". Proche-Orient chrétien. 2: 11–38, 333–366.
  4. ↑ Grumel, Venance (1934). "Le Patriarcat et Les Patriarches d'Antioche Sous La Seconde Domination Byzantine, 969–1084". Échos d'Orient. 33 (174): 129–147. doi:10.3406/rebyz.1934.2786.
  5. ↑ Fedalto, Giorgio (1973). La Chiesa latina in Oriente. Verona: Mazziana.
  6. ↑ Jenkins, Romilly J. H.; Mango, Cyril A. (1961). "A Synodicon of Antioch and Lacedaemonia". Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 15. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks: 225–246. doi:10.2307/1291182. JSTOR 1291182. Retrieved 26 June 2026.
  7. ↑ Todt, Klaus-Peter (2020). Dukat und griechisch-orthodoxes Patriarchat von Antiocheia in mittelbyzantinischer Zeit (969–1084). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
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