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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 30 of 30
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- Refusal To Condemn Athanasius (3)
- Non-Chalcedonianism (2)
- Refusal To Subscribe To Arianism (2)
- Treason (2)
- Adherence To The Doctrine Of Arius And Eunomius (1)
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- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (5)
- Alexandria [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (4)
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- Ierusalem [Jerusalem] (35.23, 31.78) (2)
- Sketis [Wadi El Natrun] (30.48, 30.29) (2)
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- Island In Nile Delta [Island In Nile Delta] (31.12, 30.90) (2)
- Monastery In The Palace Of Hormisdas [Boukoleon Palace] (28.97, 41.00) (2)
- Thracia [Thrace] (26.00, 42.00) (2)
- Aegyptus [Egypt] (30.00, 26.00) (1)
- Armenia [Armenia] (44.95, 40.38) (1)
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- Constantinopolis (3)
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- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (5)
- Alexandria [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (4)
- Roma [Rome] (12.49, 41.89) (2)
- Sketis [Wadi El Natrun] (30.48, 30.29) (2)
- Amida [Diyarbakır] (40.24, 37.91) (1)
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- Arrested In His Cave At Night (2)
- Arrested After Three Days, Following Intervention From The Crowd, Handed Himself Over To Chief Of Police, Put Aboard A Ship (1)
- He Fled From A Church While Psalms Were Chanted (Socr. He 2.11 Npnf) (1)
- Left On His Own, Accompanied Only By A Slave, Embarked On A Boat And Told The Oarsmen To Row To Zeugma (1)
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- Converted Island Population, Transformed Local Temple Into A Church (2)
- Attends Council At Seleucia In 359 And Several Councils In Gaul In 360, In Paris And Places Unknown; Brings Letter (Ab Episcopis Gallicanis Ad Orientales Episcopos) To Rome In 360. (1)
- Silvanus Allowed Cyril To Take Part In The Church Ministration, Despite The Warnings Of Acacius. Cyril Also Attended A Council In Seleucia. (1)
- After His Return From Exile, He Forced His Daughter Who Was A Nun To Marry (1)
- After His Return, He Ordained Many Bishops, E.g. Maris Of Doliche (1)
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- Constantius Ii (8)
- Lucius Of Alexandria (4)
- Crowd In Constantinople (3)
- Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus (3)
- Iustinus Ii (3)
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- Controversial, There Is A A Local Feast Day. (1)
- Martyr (1)
- Confessor And Martyr (1)
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Person/Group Name | Exile Date | Sent From | Went To | Returned | Previous Office | Relationships | Sources |
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Aetius of Antioch
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from: 358 to: 362 | Alexandria [Alexandria] | Pepouza [unknown] | yes | deacon | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 4.8, 11-12; 5.1-2; 6.7 (GCS) Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.23 (PG 1038-9) | |
Amidan monks
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from: 521 to: 530 | Amida [Diyarbakır] | yes | other | Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 35 (PO 18:607-23) | ||
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 | |
Anthimus of Constantinople
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from: 536 to: 548 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Monastery in the palace of Hormisdas [Boukoleon Palace] | yes | bishop | Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 48 (PO 18, 686-7) Liber Pontificalis 59 (Duchesne) | |
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) | |
Athanasius
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from: 335 to: 337 | Tyrus [Tyre] | Col. Augusta Treverorum [Trier] | yes | bishop | Athanasius, apologia secunda 9.1-5, 71ff. Athanasius, epistula festalis 10 | |
Athanasius
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from: 339 to: 346 | Alexandria [Alexandria] | yes | bishop |
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TRE, s.v. Athanasius Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium Athanasius, apologia secunda Athanasius, indices epistularum festialium 17 (SC) Socrates, Historia ecclesiastica, 4.23 | |
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 | |
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 | ||
Cyrillus of Jerusalem
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from: 357 to: 359 | Ierusalem [Jerusalem] | Tarsus [Tarsus] | yes | bishop | Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.22 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.40 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.22 Michael Syrus 7.8 (Chabot 1:309) | |
Dorotheus of Antioch
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from: 380 to: 388 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Thracia [Thrace] | yes | bishop | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.19 | |
Eunomius of Cyzikus (PCBE 3, Eunomius 1, 295-342)
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from: 370 to: 378 | Island of Naxos [Naxos] | yes | unknown | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.11 | ||
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; |
Eusebius of Vercelli (PCBE 2, Eusebius 1, 692-7)
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from: 355 to: 362 | Mediolan(i)um [Milan] | Scythopolis/Nysa [Beit She'an] | yes | bishop |
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Eusebius of Vercelli, epistula 1 ad Constantium (CCSL 9:103); Eusebius of Vercelli, epistula 2 (CCSL 9:104-9); Eusebius of Vercelli, epistula 3 (CCSL 9:110); Eusebius of Vercelli, Appendix II (CCSL 9:119-23); Lucifer of Cagliari, epistula 7 (CCSL 8:319 = CCSL 9:120); Hilarius of Poitiers, textus narrativus (Liber I ad Constantium) 1.3 (CSEL 65:186-7), Hilarius of Poitiers, Fragmentum historiarum, App. VII.1 (CSEL 65:164-5); Sulpicius Severus, Chronica 2.39 (CSEL 1:92-3); Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 27 (SC 56:118-19); Athanasius, De fuga 4 (Opitz II.1:70-71); Athanasius, historia Arianorum 33.6, 46.3, 76.3 (Opitz II.1:201, 210, 225); Faustinus et Marcellinus, Libellus precum 2.23 (CSEL 35.1:12); Gesta inter Liberium et Felicem 2 (CSEL 35.1:1); Hieronymus, chronica, ann. 355 (GCS 47:239-40); Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 96 (TU 14.1:47); Prosper of Aquitaine, epitoma chronicon (MGH auct. ant. 9, chronica minora 1:455); Rufinus , historia ecclesiastica 10.21, 28 (GCS 9.2:987-8, 991); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.36, 3.5 (PG 67:301-2, 388); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.9.3-4 , 5.12.1 (GCS 50:148, 210-11); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.15.4, 3.4.2 (GCS 19:129, 179); Epiphanius, Panarion 30.5.2 (GCS 25:339-40); CIL V 6722-3; Inscriptiones Christianae 1049-50 (Diehl); |
Eutychius of Constantinople
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from: 565 to: 577 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Monastery of Choracudis [n/a] | yes | bishop |
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Vita S Eutychii Patriarchae 38-71 (PG 86:2317-56) Theophanes, AM 6057 (de Boor 240) Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 566 (MGH 11:205) |
Fl. Taurus Seleucus Cyrus (PLRE 2, Cyrus 7, 336-9; PCBE 3, Kyros 2, 604-8)
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from: 443 to: 450 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Smyrna [Izmir] | yes | n/a | Malalas, chronica 14.16 (Dindorf, 361-2); Chronicon paschale, anno 450, p. 587-9; Joannes of Nikiu, chronica 84.47-57, p. 339-40; Theophanes, AM 5937 (de Boor, 96-7); Nicephorus Callistus, historia ecclesiastica 14.46 (PG 146:1220A-B); Patria 3.111, p. 252; Leo the Grammarian, p. 110; Zonaras 13.22.47-52 (vol. 3:106); Cedrenus 1, p. 598-9; Suidas, Th 145 (vol. 2:695), K 2776 (vol. 3:220); vita Danielis Stylitis 31-6, p. 30-34; epitomai vitae Danielis Stylitis 4, 19, p. 97, 119; Simeon Metaphrastes, vita Danielis Stylites 19 (PG 116:993D); Anthologia Palatina 1.99 (vol. 1:38-9); John Lydus, de magistratibus 3.42, p. 198; | |
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 of Poitiers (PCBE 4, Hilarius 1, 989-97)
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from: 356 to: 360 | Limonum/Pictavi [Poitiers] | Phrygia [Central Anatolia] | yes | bishop | Hilarius of Poitiers, liber contra Auxentium 7 (PL 10:614); Hilarius of Poitiers, ad Constantium 2.1-2 (CSEL 65:197-8); Hilarius of Poitiers, in Constantium 2 and 12-15 (SC 334:170 and 192-8); Hilarius of Poitiers, de synodis 1-2, 8 and 63 (PL 10:479-81, 485 and 522-3); Hilarius of Poitiers, de trinitate 1-3, 4.1 and 10.4 (SC 443:202-386, SC 448:12 and SC 462:178); Hilarius of Poitiers, Fragmentum historiarum A.5-9, B.3.2, B.7.1-2, B.7.5-11 and B.8.1-2 (CSEL 65:78-97, 155-6, 164-73 and 174-7); Venantius Fortunatus, vita s. Hilarii 6 (MGH auct. ant. 4.2:3); Hieronymus, chronica, ann. 356 (Jeanjean-Lancon, 92); Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 100 (Ceresa-Gastaldo, 204); Hieronymus, altercatio Luciferiani et orthodoxi 19 (CCSL 79B:48-9); Faustinus et Marcellinus, libellus precum 24 (SC 504:130); Prosper of Aquitaine, chronica 1096 (ann. 356) (MGH auct. ant. 9:455); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.14.41, 4.12.6 and 4.22 (SC 418:138, 242 and 300-312); Sulpicius Severus, chronica 2.42 and 2.45.2-3 (SC 441:322 and 330); Sulpicius Severus, vita Martini 6.7 and 7.1 (SC 133:266); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.39-40 (SC 493:200-216); Epistula ab episcopis Gallicanis ad orientales episcopos 1-4 (CCSL 148:33-4); | |
Ioannes Chrysostomos
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from: 403 to: 403 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | yes | bishop | sources according to J.N.D. Kelly, Golden Mouth, The story of John Chrysostom - ascetic, preacher, bishop, London 1996 | ||
Irenaeus (PLRE 2, Irenaeus 2, 624-5)
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from: 435 to: 445 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Petra [Petra] | yes | n/a | ACO I.4:203 nos. 277-8 | |
Isidorus
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from: 373 to: 380 | Sketis [Wadi El Natrun] | Island in Nile Delta [Island in Nile Delta] | yes | other |
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Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 4.24 (SC 505:100-104) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.20 (SC 495:334-340) |
Lucifer of Cagliari (PCBE 2, Lucifer 1, 1324-8)
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from: 355 to: 362 | Mediolan(i)um [Milan] | Germanikeia [Kahramanmaraş] | yes | bishop |
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Liberius, epistula 1-3, in: Eusebius of Vercelli, Appendix II B.1-2 (CCSL 9:122-3); Hilarius of Poitiers, Fragmentum historiarum, Appendix II A, VII; II B (CSEL 65:164-5, 187); Hilarius of Poitiers, de synodis 77 (PL 10:530); Hilarius of Poitiers, apologetica ad reprehensores libri de synodis 3 and 6 (PL 10:546-7); Florentius, epistula ad Luciferum and Lucifer of Cagliari, epistula ad Florentium (CCSL 8:305); Lucifer of Cagliari, epistula 3-4 and 6 (CCSL 8:306-10 and 316-18); Lucifer of Cagliari, epistula 7 (CCSL 8:319 = CCSL 9:120); Lucifer of Cagliari, de non conveniendo cum haereticis (CCSL 8:165-92); Lucifer of Cagliari, de Athanasio (CCSL 8:3-132); Lucifer of Cagliari, de regibus apostaticis (CCSL 8:135-61); Lucifer of Cagliari, moriundum esse pro Dei filio (CCSL 8:265-300); Rufinus, historia ecclesiastica 10.21, 28, 31 (GCS 9.2.2:987, 991, 994); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.36, 3.5, 3.9 (PG 67:301, 388, 465); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.15.7, 4.9.3-4, 5.12-13, 7.3.6 (GCS 50:126, 148, 210-12, 304); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.15.4, 3.4.2 (GCS 19:129, 179); Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 27 (SC 56:118-19); Athanasius, De fuga 4 (Opitz II.1:70-71); Athanasius, historia Arianorum 33-34 and 46 (Opitz II.1:201-2 and 210); Athanasius, tomus ad Antiochenus 9 (PG 26:808); Gesta inter Liberium et Felicem 1, collectio Avellana 1 (CSEL 35.1:1); Faustinus et Marcellinus, Libellus precum 22-23, 63, 85, 89, 109, collectio Avellana 2 (CSEL 35.1:12, 23, 31-2, 39); Hieronymus, chronica, ann. 355 (GCS 47:239-40); Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 95 (TU 14.1:53); Prosper of Aquitaine, epitoma chronicon, ann. 354 (MGH auct. ant. 9, chronica minora 1:455); Sulpicius Severus, chronica 2.39 (CSEL 1:92); Vita Dionysii 76 (AASS Mai. VI:46, BHL 2168); Faustinus et Marcellinus, libellus precum 84, 86, 88, 109, Collectio Avellana 2 (CSEL 35.1:30-31, 39); Photius, bibliotheca 258 (483a) (Henry, 94); |
Marcellus (PCBE 4, Marcellus 4, 1241-1243)
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from: 476 to: 478 | Col. Dea Vocontiorum [Die] | Col. Arelate [Arles] | yes | bishop | Vita Marcelli; F. Dolbeau, ‘La vie en prose de saint Marcel évêque de Die. Histoire du texte et édition critique’, Francia 11 (1983) pp.97-130 | |
Martinus of Tours (PCBE 4, Martinus 1, 1267-79)
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from: 356 to: 360 | Mediolan(i)um [Milan] | yes | abbot | Sulpicius Severus, Vita Martini 6.4 | ||
Maximus of Constantinople
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from: 373 to: 378 | Alexandria [Alexandria] | Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga] | yes | unknown | Gregorius of Nazianzus, oratio 25.13-14 (PG 35:1216-1217) | |
Pambo
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from: 373 to: 380 | Sketis [Wadi El Natrun] | Island in Nile Delta [Island in Nile Delta] | yes | other | Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 4.24 (SC 505:100-104) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.20 (SC 495:334-340) Palladius, Historia Lausiaca 46.2 | |
Sidonius Apollinaris (PLRE 2, Apollinaris 6; PCBE 4, Sidonius 1)
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from: 475 to: 476 | Augustonemetum [Clermont-Ferrand] | Liviana [Douzens] | yes | bishop | Sidonius Apollinaris, epistula 4.10, 4.17, 4.22, 7.16, 8.3, 8.9 and 9.3 | |
Stephanus of Cyprus
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from: 565 to: 577 | Cyprus [Cyprus] | Plataea [Platees] | yes | bishop | Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 1.16, 2.3 (NPNF) | |
Theodosius of Jerusalem
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from: 453 to: 457 | Ierusalem [Jerusalem] | yes | bishop | Narratio de obitu Theodosii Hierosolymorum et Romani monachi (trad. E.W. Brooks, Vita virorum apud Monophysitas celeberrimorum, vol. 1, CSCO 8, 1907, 15-17) https://archive.org/stream/vitaevirorumapud00broo#page/14/mode/2up | ||
Tiberianus (PLRE 1, Tiberianus 2, 911)
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from: 385 to: -- | Spain or Gaul [Spain or Gaul] | Island of Sylinancis [Isles of Scilly] | yes | n/a | Sulpicius Severus, chronica 2.51.2 (SC 441:344) Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 123 |