Thomarichos 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VII
Dates649 (taq) / 667 (ob.)
Variant NamesThomas
ReligionChristian
LocationsApamea (Syria) (officeplace);
Apamea (Syria);
Arados
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Apamea (Syria) (office)
Textual SourcesChronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
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)

Thomarichos 1 is Θωμάριχον in Theoph. AM 6140, AM 6157 and Thomas (T'wm') in Chron. 1234. Thomarichos 1 was a bishop of an unnamed see (ὁ ἐπίσκοπος), sent by Mu`awiya 1 in 648/649 to persuade the defenders of Arados to surrender; the defenders detained him and refused to let him go: Theoph. AM 6140, Chron. 1234. Bishop of Apamea, he died in 666/667: Theoph. AM 6157 (καὶ ἀπέθανε Θωμάριχος, ὁ επίσκοπος Ἀπαμείας). He was apparently bishop of Apamea from at least 649 to 666.

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