Pamretios the Bishop

Otherwise little attested; known chiefly as a bishop who received seven letters from Isidore of Pelusium, the Egyptian ascetic and theologian (c. 360-c. 435 AD) whose voluminous correspondence survives largely through Patrologia Graeca vol. 78. Isidore wrote from his monastic setting near Pelusium in the eastern Nile Delta to a wide circle of clergy, monks, officials, and laymen, and Pamretios appears only within that body of letters as one of his episcopal correspondents. His specific see, dates, and career are not independently documented; based on the correspondence he was most plausibly a bishop active in the region of Lower Egypt in the late fourth or early fifth century AD.