# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leontios-of-neapolis
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:48:08.944Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leontios-of-neapolis"
name: "Leontios of Neapolis"
slug: "leontios-of-neapolis"
description: "Leontios was a 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 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."
tagline: "Cypriot bishop"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "585"
deathDate: "662"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.7
  momentum:             0.199203187250996
  historical:           7.875882666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontios_Byzantsk%C3%BD"
    title: "Leontios Byzantský"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lleonci_de_Ne%C3%A0polis"
    title: "Lleonci de Neàpolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontios_of_Neapolis"
    title: "Leontios of Neapolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leoncio_de_Ne%C3%A1polis"
    title: "Leoncio de Neápolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9ontios_de_N%C3%A9apolis"
    title: "Léontios de Néapolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3ncio_de_Ne%C3%A1polis"
    title: "Leóncio de Neápolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leoncjusz_z_Neapolis"
    title: "Leoncjusz z Neapolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B4ncio_de_Ne%C3%A1polis"
    title: "Leôncio de Neápolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Леонтий Кипрский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3298419"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump