Petros

Petros (Peter) is known only as a recipient of letters from Isidore of Pelusium, the early fifth-century ascetic and biblical commentator whose vast surviving correspondence (roughly 2,000 short letters) addresses clergy, monks, officials, and laypeople around Pelusium in the eastern Nile Delta. Seventeen of these letters are addressed to a Petros; since the name was extremely common in the period, he is most plausibly a member of the local clergy or monastic community connected to Isidore's circle, but he cannot be securely identified with any other attested figure. Beyond what the letters themselves imply, nothing certain is known of his dates, office, or career.