Peter Fullo ("the Fuller") was Patriarch of Antioch (471 - 488) and Miaphysite. Peter received his surname from his former trade as a fuller of cloth. Tillemont (Empereurs, tome vi. p. 404) considers that Peter was originally a member of the convent of the Akoimetoi, which he places in Bithynia on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, at Gomon, "The Great Monastery" and being expelled thence for his behavior and heretical doctrine, passed over to Constantinople, where he courted persons of influence, through whom he was introduced to Zeno, the son-in-law of Leo I(457-474) and future emperor (474-491), whose favor he secured, obtaining through him the chief place in the church of St. Bassa, at Chalcedon. Here his Miaphysite beliefs quickly became apparent, resulting with his flight to Zeno, wh