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Person/Group Name Exile Date Sent From Went To Returned Previous Office Relationships Sources
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)
African clerics (4,966)
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from: 480 to: -- desert in North Africa (unlocated) [North Africa] unknown other Victor of Vita Historia Persecutionis 2.26-37
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
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
Barses of Edessa
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from: 373 to: -- Edessa [Şanlıurfa] Arados [Arwad] unknown bishop Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.16 (SC 530: 240-2) Basilius of Caesarea, epistula 264 Michael Syrus 7.8 (Chabot 1:309)
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)
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 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 Vita S Eutychii Patriarchae 38-71 (PG 86:2317-56) Theophanes, AM 6057 (de Boor 240) Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 566 (MGH 11:205)
Felix of Abbir Maius (PCBE 1, Felix 61, 432-33)
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from: 480 to: -- Abbir Maius [Henchir el Khandaq] desert in North Africa (unlocated) [North Africa] unknown bishop Victor of Vita Historia Persecutionis 2.26-37
Frontinus of Salona
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from: 554 to: 562 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Antinoopolis [El Sheikh Ibada] unknown bishop Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 554 and 562 (MGH auct. ant. 11:203, 205)
Gaianus of Alexandria
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from: 536 to: -- Alexandria [Alexandria] Carthago [Carthage] unknown bishop Liberatus, Breviarium 20 (ACO 2.5:135) Historia patriarcharum Alexandrinorum 1.13 (PO 1:455-461) Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 540 (MGH AA 11:199)
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
Ioannes Chrysostomos
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from: 404 to: 407 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Kokousos [Göksun] no bishop sources according to J.N.D. Kelly, Golden Mouth, The story of John Chrysostom - ascetic, preacher, bishop, London 1996
Ioannes of Ephesus
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from: 571 to: 589 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Imperial palace of Constantinople [Palace of Constantinople] no bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 1.17, 2.4-7, 41, 44, 50 Michael Syrus 10.6, 18 (Chabot 2:300, 303, 349)
Ioannes of Hephaistopolis
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from: 536 to: -- Hephaistopolis [Kayetbai] Fortress Derkos [n/a] no bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, Life of Z’ura (PO 17:35) Ioannes of Ephesus, Life of John of Hephaistopolis (PO 18:528-529) Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 540 (MGH AA 11:199)
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)
Isidorus of Kenneshrin
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from: 536 to: 536 Chalcis ad Belum [Qinnasrin] Alexandria [Alexandria] no bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 13 (PO 82:189) Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, chronicon 3.32 (transl. Witakowski, 31-32) Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 50)
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 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);
Macedonius II of Constantinople
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from: 511 to: 517 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Euchaita [Beyözü] no bishop Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector, historia ecclesiastica 492, 514 (GCS 53:139, 148); Marcellinus comes, chronica 511, 514 (MGH Auct. Ant. 11.2:97-8); Theophanes 6004 and 6008 (de Boor 154-156, 161-162); Zacharias, historia ecclesiastica 7.7 (CSCO 84:39-40, 87:26-28); Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, chronicon 3.9 (edited by Chabot, Incerti auctoris Chronicon Pseudo-Dyonisianum vulgo dictum. I-II, CSCO 91 and 121, Paris 1927-Louvain 1949); Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 3.30-31; Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 507-509 (Harrak, 44);
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
Mare of Amida
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from: 521 to: 529 Amida [Diyarbakır] Petra [Petra] unknown bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 13 (PO 17:188-195) Zacharias, historia ecclesiastica 8.5 (CSCO 84:77-82, 88:52-57) Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518, 525-526 (Harrak, 50, 60) (= Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, chronicon 3.32 (transl. Witakowski, 31-32)
Nestorius
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from: 431 to: 450 Ephesus [Selçuk] Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] no bishop Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 1.7; ACO 1.1.3, 110 (Schwartz, 67); 1.4, 166-7, 189-90; Codex Theodosianus 16.5.66; Barhadbessaba Arbaia (Nau, PO 9/5, 1913:493-677) 27-30; Elias' letter to Cosmas (Nau, PO 13/2, 1916:273-86); Chronicle of Seert (Sher, PO 5/2, 1950:221-344); Iohannes Rufus, Plerophories (Nau, PO 8, 1911:405-608); Michael Syrus (Chabot, vol. 2); Severus of Hermopolis, historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum (Evetts, PO 1/4, 1948, 383-518); John Moschus, Pratum Spirituale (ed. Th. Nissen, "Unbekannte Erzählungen aus dem Pratum Spirituale", Byzantinische Zeitschrift 38, 1938, 351-376); Historia Ecclesiastica Coptica (ed. D.W. Johnson, "Further Fragments of a Coptic Church History of the Church: Cambridge Or. 1699 R.", Enchoria 6, 1976, 7-17);
Paulinus of Trier (PCBE 4, Paulinus 1, 1443-4)
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from: 354 to: 358 Col. Arelate [Arles] Phrygia [Central Anatolia] no bishop Hilarius of Poitiers, in Constantium 11 (SC 334:90); Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 27 (SC 56:119); Athanasius, historia Arianorum 33-4 and 76.3 (Opitz 2:201-2 and 225); Hilarius of Poitiers, Fragmentum historiarum B I.6 (CSEL 65:102); Hilarius of Poitiers, textus narrativus (liber I ad Constantium) 3 (8) (CSEL 65:187); Faustinus et Marcellinus, libellus precum 21 and 77 (SC 504:128 and 180); Hieronymus, chronica, ann. 354 and 358 (Jeanjean-Lancon, 90 and 94); Prosper of Aquitaine, chronica 1090 (ann. 354) and 1102 (ann. 357) (MGH auct. ant. 9:455-6); Rufinus, historia ecclesiastica 10.20-21 (GCS 9.2:987-8); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.9.3 (SC 418:218-20); Sulpicius Severus, Chronica 2.54.4 (SC 441:332); Martyrologium Hieronymianum, Acta Sanctorum Nov. 2.2:478; CIL 13, 3782c=ILCV 1612c
Paulus of Antioch
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from: 571 to: 572 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Monastery of the Abrahamites [n/a] unknown bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 1.17, 2.2 E.W. Brooks, 'The Patriarch Paul of Antioch and the Alexandrine schism’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 30 (1929), 468-76
Paulus of Constantinople
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from: 350 to: 350 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Thessalonica [Thessaloniki] no bishop Athanasius of Alexandria, historia Arianorum 275 (1.7 NPNF) Mansi, concilia i. 1275 Photius, bibliotheca 257 (Bekker, 474-7) https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecaexrec00photuoft#page/474/mode/2up
Philoxenus of Hierapolis/Mabug
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from: 519 to: 523 Hierapolis/Mabbug [Manbij] Philippopolis [Plovdiv] no bishop Philoxenus, epistula ad monachos in Senun Halleux (CSCO 232. Scrpt. Syr. 99:76, 77-78) Chronicum Edessenum 87 (CSCO 1-2) https://archive.org/stream/chronicaminorapa00guid#page/8/mode/2up Zacharias, historia ecclesiastica 8.5 (CSCO 84:77-82, 88:52-57) Theophanes, AM 6011 (De Boor 165) Barhebraeus, chronicon ecclesiasticum 2.56 (Abbeloos & Lamy vol. 1 p. 196-7) https://archive.org/stream/BarHebraeusChroniconEcclesiasticumVol.1/GregoriiBarhebraeiChroniconEcclesiasticum#page/n137/mode/2up Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 50)
Severus of Antioch
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from: 518 to: 538 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] no bishop 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)
Silverius of Rome
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from: 537 to: 537 Roma [Rome] Patara [Gelemiş] no bishop Liber Pontificalis I:293 (Duchesne) Liberatus, Breviarium 22 (ACO 2.5: 137) Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 542 (MGH auct. ant. 11:200)
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)
Theodorus of Cebarsussi
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from: 555 to: 565 Cebarsussi [unknown] Alexandria [Alexandria] unknown bishop Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 555.2, 556.2, 565? (MGH auct. ant. 11:204-5)
Theodosius of Alexandria
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from: 536 to: 567 Alexandria [Alexandria] Fortress Derkos [n/a] no bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, Life of Z’ura (PO 17:35) Ioannes of Ephesus, Life of John of Hephaistopolis (PO 18:528-529) Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 48, 50 (PO 18, 685, 688; PO 19:155) Historia patriarcharum Alexandrinorum 2.13 (PO 1:457) Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 540 (MGH AA 11:199) Liberatus, Breviarium 20, 23 (ACO 2.5:135, 138)
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
Timotheus Aelurus of Alexandria
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from: 460 to: -- Alexandria [Alexandria] Gangra [Çankırı] unknown bishop Gelasius, Gesta de nomine Acacii (CSEL 35, n. 99:446); Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector, historia ecclesiastica 380 (GCS N.F. 3:107); Zacharias, historia ecclesiastica 4.7--12, 5.1 (CSCO 83:178-86, 109-211; CSCO 87:124, 128-129, 145); Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 2.8-11 (SC 542:294); Theophanes, AM 5951-2 (De Boor: 111-112); Michael Syrus 9.1; Collectio Avellana 56.2 (CSEL 35:125); Liberatus, Breviarium 16 (ACO 2.5:125);
Victor of Tunnuna
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from: 544 to: 555 Tunnuna [n/a] Balearic islands [Balearic islands] no bishop
Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 555.2 (MGH auct. ant. 11:204)
Victor of Tunnuna
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from: 544 to: 555 monastery of Mandracium [n/a] Aegimoeroe islands [Zembra Island] no n/a
Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 555.2 (MGH auct. ant. 11:204)
Victor of Tunnuna
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from: 555 to: 570 Aegimoeroe islands [Zembra Island] Alexandria [Alexandria] no n/a Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 555.2, 556.2, 565? (MGH auct. ant. 11:204-5)
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