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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Dalmatos, abbot in Constantinople, ob. c. 436

Saint ID

S01782

Number in BH

BHG 481-483

Reported Death Not Before

436

Reported Death Not After

446

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E03821The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 3 August *Justinian (Roman emperor, ob. 565, S01572), *Dalmatos (monk in 5th c., S01782), *Elisha (Old Testament prophet, S00239), *Theodotos (a probably Montanist martyr of Ancyra, central Asia Minor, and his seven virgin companions, S00626).
E07004The Greek Life of *Dalmatos (abbot in Constantinople, ob. c. 436, S01782) recounts the life of the second abbot of the Monastery of Dalmatos in Constantinople, focusing on his role in deposing the heretical bishop Nestorius. Written in Constantinople, possibly in the 6th c.