Michael Choumnos

Michael Choumnos ( Middle Greek Μιχαήλ Χούμνος , also Chumnos or Chumnus , * 11th century ; † 12th century ) was a Middle Byzantine cleric and canonist. He is documented as Chartophylax or Nomophylax at the Hagia Sophia of Constantinople in July 1121 and was Archbishop or Metropolitan of Thessaloniki in January 1122 . He died in 1133 at the latest. He wrote (partly still unedited) writings on marriage law and the practice of fasting.

Editions

• Georgios A. Rhalles , Michael Potles : Σύνταγμα τῶν θείων καὶ ἱερῶν κανόνων , Vol. V, Athens 1855, pp. 397–398 = Patrologia Graeca , Vol. 119, Paris 1864, Sp. 1297–1300 (partial edition of a matrimonial text)
• Spyridon P. Lampros, in: Νέος Ἑλληνομνήμων , Vol. 12, 1915, pp. 393–395 (edition of a 2nd marriage law text)
• Andreas Schminck , in: Fontes minores , Vol. III, 1979, pp. 228–232 (partial edition of a third text on marriage law)
• V. Beneševič, in: Studi bizantini e neoellenici , Vol. 2, 1927, pp. 184-185 (edition of a text on fasting practice)

literature

• V. Laurent: Chumnos Michel. In: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques. Vol. 12, 1951, Col. 764-765.
• Konstantinos G. Pitsakis: Τὸ κώλυμα γάμου λόγῳ συγγενείας ἑβδόμου βαθμοῦ ἐξ αἵματος στὸ βυζαντινὸ δίκαιο. Athens / Komotini 1985, pp. 221-226 and 283-290.
• Andreas Schminck: Michael Chumnos. In: Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3rd edition, Vol. VII, 1998, Col. 234.