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This browse area lists all exile cases in the database by the name of the exiled individual or group in alphabetical order. Results will display as a list of exile cases each one of which you can then explore further. You will also be able to refine the list further and display statistical information through using the facets on the left hand side.Showing 1 to 37 of 37
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- Non-Chalcedonianism (3)
- Adherence To The Doctrine Of Arius And Eunomius (2)
- Heresy (2)
- Infection Of Palace With Eunomian Doctrines (1)
- Involvement In A Plot To Murder The Bishop Of Cyzicus, Eusebius (1)
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- Antiochia/theoupolis [Antakya] (36.17, 36.20) (5)
- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (5)
- Chalcedon [Kadiköy] (29.03, 40.98) (2)
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- Lydia [Anatolia] (27.13, 38.42) (2)
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- Gaul [France] (0.00, 47.20) (3)
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- Alexandria [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (1)
- Antiochia/theoupolis [Antakya] (36.17, 36.20) (1)
- Chareou Polis [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (1)
- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (1)
- Ctesiphon [Al-Mada'in] (44.58, 33.09) (1)
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- Left On His Own, Accompanied Only By A Slave, Embarked On A Boat And Told The Oarsmen To Row To Zeugma (1)
- Placed On A Board Of A Ship, With Nothing But One Cheap Cloak (1)
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- Philost. 2.7: "philostorgius Says, That Eusebius, Maris, And Theognis, After A Period Of Three Years Spent In Banishment, Were Recalled By Command Of The Emperor, And Immediately Put Forth An Heretical Form Of Faith, And Sent It In Every Direction, In Order To Counteract The Nicene Creed. " (3)
- He Introduced A More Nestorian Theology To The Persian Church (1)
- After His Return, He Ordained Many Bishops, E.g. Maris Of Doliche (1)
- He Engaged In The Monastic Model Of Austerity And Poverty And In Conflicts With Julian Of Halicarnassus, He Persuaded Anthimus To Leave His See As He Had The Same Opinions (1)
- He Writes The Vita Antonii Out Of Gratefulness That He Finds Shelter In Monastic Communities, He Is Able To Supervise His Diocese (1)
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Person/Group Name | Exile Date | Sent From | Went To | Returned | Previous Office | Relationships | Sources |
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Andreas
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from: 571 to: 577 | City wall of Constantinople [Theodosian wall] | Monastery of Acoemetae [n/a] | yes | presbyter | Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 2.14 | |
Andreas (cubicularius) (PLRE 2, Andreas 8, 76-7)
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from: 571 to: 577 | Imperial palace of Constantinople [Palace of Constantinople] | Monastery in the palace of Hormisdas [Boukoleon Palace] | yes | n/a | Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 2.9 and 38 Michael Syrus 10.7 | |
Antiochus (presbyter)
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from: 373 to: 379 | Armenia [Armenia] | yes | presbyter |
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Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.15.8 (SC 530:238) | |
Antonius
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from: 404 to: -- | Palaestina [Palestine] | unknown | unknown |
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Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) | |
Athanasius
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from: 357 to: 362 | Alexandria [Alexandria] | Aegyptus [Egypt] | yes | bishop | Gregorius of Nazianzus, oratio 21.20 Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 29.3 Athanasius, historia Arianorum 53ff. Ammianus Marcellinus 22.5.3 Historia Acephala 4.1-4 Palladius, historia Lausiaca 63 Festal Index 28, 30, 32 (SC 317: 257-61) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 5.6 | |
Barsauma
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from: 451 to: -- | Edessa [Şanlıurfa] | Nisibis [Nusaybin] | no | unknown |
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S. Gerö, Barsauma of Nisibis and Persian Christianity in the Fifth Century (CSCO 426 Subs. 63), Louvain 1981, 60–72 |
Bonifatius of Rome (PCBE 2, Bonifatius 3, 318-19)
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from: 419 to: 419 | Roma [Rome] | yes | bishop | collectio Avellana 16, 18 (CSEL 35.1:61-5) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/60/mode/2up Liber Pontificalis 44 (Duchesne I:89-92) https://archive.org/stream/bookofpopesliber00loom#page/88/mode/2up | ||
Demophilus of Constantinople
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from: 380 to: -- | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Beroe [Stara Zagora] | n/a | bishop | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.19 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 5.10 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 7.5, 7.12 (NPNF) | |
Dorotheus of Antioch
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from: 380 to: 388 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Thracia [Thrace] | yes | bishop | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.19 | |
Eliseus of Sardis
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from: 571 to: -- | Sardis [Sart] | Monastery of Dios [n/a] | unknown | bishop | Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 1.15 Michael Syrus 10.4/5 (Chabot 2:297) | |
Eugenius
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from: 404 to: -- | unknown | bishop |
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Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) | ||
Eunomius of Cyzikus (PCBE 3, Eunomius 1, 295-342)
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from: 389 to: 393 | Chalcedon [Kadiköy] | Halmyris [Murighiol] | no | unknown | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 10.6 Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 120 (Herding 62) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 7.17 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 5.20 (NPNF) | |
Eusebius of Nicomedia
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from: 326 to: 328 | Nicomedia [İzmit] | Gaul [France] | yes | bishop | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 1.9-10, 2.7; Gelasius of Cyzicus, historia ecclesiastica I.11 (GCS NF 9:18-25); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 1.19 (NPNF); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 1.14 (NPNF); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 2.16 (NPNF), 3.19.3; Opitz, Urkunde 27.16, 36 (Opitz, 125-6, 129); | |
Eusebius of Samosata
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from: 373 to: 378 | Samosata [Samsat] | Thracia [Thrace] | yes | bishop |
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Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.12-13 (NPNF); Basilius of Caesarea, epistula 181-183, 198, 237, 268; Gregorius of Nazianzus, epistula 64-66; Theophanes, AM 5871; |
Flavius Ioannes ('the Cappadocian') (PLRE 3, Ioannes 11, 627-35)
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from: 541 to: 548 | Cyzikus [Erdek/Bandirma] | Antinoopolis [El Sheikh Ibada] | yes | presbyter | Procopius, bellum Persarum 1.25.39-43, 2.30.49-50; Malalas, chronica 480, fr. 47; Procopius, anecdota 17.40-44, 21.5; Marcellinus Comes, additamenta ad chronicon a. 544 | |
Gregorius of Lydia
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from: 404 to: -- | Lydia [Anatolia] | Phrygia [Central Anatolia] | unknown | bishop |
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Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) |
Heracleides of Ephesus
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from: 404 to: 408 | Ephesus [Selçuk] | Nicomedia [İzmit] | yes | bishop | Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) | |
Hilarius (ascetic)
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from: 404 to: -- | Pontus [Anatolia] | unknown | unknown |
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Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) | |
Ibas of Edessa
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from: 449 to: 451 | Edessa [Şanlıurfa] | 20 different prisons, including one in Antioch [n/a] | yes | bishop | ACO 2.1:376, 2.5:117; Sacrosancta Concilia (Labbe) 4:634, 891, 917; Chronica Edessena LXVIII; Barhadbessaba Arbaia (Nau, PO 9, Fasc. 5); Acta Synodis Ephesinae IIB (Akten der ephesinischen Synode vom Jahre 449) , ed. J. Flemming, Berlin 1917, p. 21-69 | |
Ioannes of Lydia
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from: 404 to: -- | Lydia [Anatolia] | Macedonia [Macedonia] | unknown | bishop |
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Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) |
Iohannes of Tella
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from: 521 to: 538 | Tella [Viranşehir] | no | bishop | V.-L. Menze, “The Regula ad Diaconos: John of Tella, his Eucharistic Ecclesiology and the Establishment of an Ecclesiastical Hierarchy in Exile,” Oriens Christianus 90 (2006), 44-90 Severus, Select Letters 5.14 (Brooks, 1902-4, 389-94) Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 18 (PO 18:513-26) Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51) | ||
Mar Aba I
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from: 544 to: 551 | Ctesiphon [Al-Mada'in] | Adurbadagan [Iranian Azerbaijan] | yes | bishop | J.B. Chabot (ed.), Synodicon orientale ou recueil de synodes nestoriens (Paris: 1902), p. 318-19, 353 https://archive.org/stream/ChabotSynodiconOrientale/chabot%20synodicon%20orientale#page/n375/mode/2up P. Bedjan (ed.), Histoire de Mar Jabalaha et des trois autre patriarches (Paris: 1895), p. 206-274 https://archive.org/stream/HistoireDeMarJabAlaha/Histoire_de_Mar_Jab_alaha#page/n239/mode/2up | |
Maris of Chalcedon
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from: 326 to: 328 | Chalcedon [Kadiköy] | Gaul [France] | yes | bishop | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 2.7 | |
Meletius of Antioch
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from: 371 to: 378 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Armenia [Armenia] | yes | bishop | Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 5.5 (NPNF) Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.12-13 (NPNF) | |
Pagans and heretics in Antioch
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from: 555 to: -- | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | unknown | unknown | Vita Symeonis Stylites 164 (van de Ven, 146) | |
Pelagius of Laodicea
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from: 373 to: -- | Laodicea [Latakia] | Arabia [Arabia] | unknown | bishop | Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.12-13 (NPNF) | |
Petrus Fullo
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from: 476 to: 485 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Pityous [Pitsunda] | yes | bishop | Malalas, chronica 15.6 (Dindorf 380-1); Joannes of Nikiu, chronica 88.43; Theophanes, AM 5969 (de Boor 125); Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 488-489 (Harrak, 37) | |
priests adhering to John Chrysostom
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from: 404 to: -- | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Arabia and Palestine [Arabia and Palestine] | unknown | presbyter |
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Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) |
Serapion of Heracleia
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from: 404 to: -- | Perinthus/Heraclea [unknown] | Egypt [Egypt] | unknown | bishop | Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) | |
Severus of Antioch
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from: 518 to: 538 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | no | bishop |
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Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 48 (PO 18, 686-8) Theophanes, AM 6011 Euagrius, historia ecclesiastica 4.4, 4.11 Ioannes Malalas, chronica 17.6 (Dindorf, 411) Novellae Iustinani 42 http://www.uwyo.edu/lawlib/blume-justinian/ajc-edition-2/novels/41-60/novel%2042_replacement.pdf Life of Severus of Antioch (tr. S.P. Brock, and B. Fitzgerald, B., Two Early Lives of Severos, Patriarch of Antioch [Translated Texts for Historians 59]; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013) Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 50) Severus of Antioch, epistula 36 (PO 12.2:291-2) | |
Sophronius
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from: 404 to: 408 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Upper Thebaid [Upper Thebaid] | unknown | deacon | Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) | |
Stephanus (presbyter)
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from: 404 to: -- | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Arabia [Arabia] | unknown | presbyter | Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) | |
Susanna
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from: 519 to: 534 | Palaestina [Palestine] | unknown | other | Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 27 (PO 18:541-58) | ||
Theognis of Nicaea
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from: 326 to: 328 | Nicaea [Iznik] | Gaul [France] | yes | bishop | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 1.9, 2.7; Gelasius of Cyzicus, historia ecclesiastica I.11 (GCS NF 9:18-25); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 1.19 (NPNF); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 1.14 (NPNF); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 2.16 (NPNF), 3.19.3; Opitz, Urkunde 27.16, 36 (Opitz, 125-6, 129); | |
Tigrius
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from: 404 to: -- | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Mesopotamia [Mesopotamia] | unknown | presbyter |
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Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 8.24 (NPNF) |
Timotheus of Maroneia
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from: 404 to: -- | Maroneia [Maroneia] | Macedonia [Macedonia] | unknown | bishop |
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Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) |
Valerianus of Avensa (PCBE 1, Valerianus 3, 1138)
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from: 455 to: 477 | Avensa [Bordj-Hamdouna] | no | n/a | PCBE 1, Valerianus 3, 1138 |