Leontius (correspondent of Isidore of Pelusium)

Leontius is known only as a correspondent of Isidore of Pelusium, who addressed at least seventeen letters to him in the early-to-mid 5th-century Pelusium milieu. The letters repeatedly address him as a bishop and treat him as a fellow churchman responsible for the governance of a church: Isidore writes to him about the proper feeding of the flock "in due season," the danger that misconduct among the ordained breeds excuses for the laity, the strife of those who should be arbiters of peace, and a notice posted at the church that stripped people of the right to sanctuary and defense. In a notably sharp letter Isidore warns him against acquiring the priesthood through money like Simon Magus, and in another he condemns the practice (in the district of Pelusium) of entrusting monastic schools to untrained herdsmen and runaway slaves, framing Leontius as a bishop expected to uphold clerical standards. Beyond this correspondence with Isidore he is otherwise unattested.