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Leontios (Greek: Λεόντιος Νεαπόλεως) was Bishop of Neapolis (Limassol) in Cyprus in the 7th century. He wrote a Life of John the Merciful, commissioned by the archbishop of Constantia Arcadius; a Life of Simeon the Holy Fool; a lost Life of Spyridon, an apologia against the Jews and another apologia in defence of icons. His apologia in defence of the icons was read by the bishop of Constantia, Constantine II at the Second Council of Nicaea that focused on the Byzantine Iconoclasm. His works are considered among the few works giving any insight into the vernacular Greek of Early and Middle Byzantium. He was probably present at the Lateran council in Rome in 649. His work was translated in Latin and published in Patrologia Graeca. He is also credited with a Dialogue with a Jew, containing a defense of the Christian veneration of images, fragments of which are quoted in the treatise On the Holy Images of John Damascene and in the Acts of the Council of Nicea of 787.

Publications

• Leontii Neapoleos in Cipro Episcopi. Opera Omnia (1865) Greek original with parallel Latin translation.
• Leontios’ von Neapolis: Leben des helligen Johannes des Barmherzigen (1893) German Translation.

References

1. Baldwin, Barry (2005-01-01), "Leontios of Neapolis", The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6, retrieved 2020-09-19
2. Polignosi. "Λεόντιος επίσκοπος Νεαπόλεως". www.polignosi.com. Retrieved 2020-09-19.
3. Déroche, Vincent (1986). "L'authenticité de l'" Apologie contre les Juifs " de Léontios de Néapolis". Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. 110 (2): 655–669. doi:10.3406/bch.1986.4762. ISSN 0007-4217.

External links

• Derek Krueger: Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius' Life and the Late Antique City, Berkeley: University of California Press 1996.
• Jan Hofstra: Leontius von Neapolis und Symeon der heilige Narr, ein Pastor als Hagiograph, Diss. Groningen 2008, ISBN 978-90-805673-5-1

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