Paulus was the exarch of Ravenna from 723 until 726 or 727, when he was killed during the riots against iconoclasm.
The Liber Pontificalis for Gregory II (715–731), recounts in great detail the conflicts between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Papacy, with repeated attempts at the life of the pope.
An account of the anti-iconoclast rebellion of 726–727 in Byzantine Italy, from the “Historia Langobardorum” by Paul the Deacon.
An incomplete list of the Byzantine exarchs (vice-emperors) of the Exarchate of Ravenna.