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- Non-Chalcedonianism (4)
- Defence Of Council Of Chalcedon (2)
- Defense Of The Three Chapters (2)
- Refusal To Subscribe To Arianism (2)
- Support Of Athanasius (2)
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- Synod Of Sidon (3)
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- Synod Of Constantinople In 536 (1)
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- Alexandria [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (7)
- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (7)
- Antiochia/theoupolis [Antakya] (36.17, 36.20) (3)
- Roma [Rome] (12.49, 41.89) (3)
- Ierusalem [Jerusalem] (35.23, 31.78) (2)
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- Petra [Petra] (35.44, 30.33) (3)
- Alexandria [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (2)
- 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)
- Oasis Magna/thebaidos [El-Kharga] (30.56, 25.44) (2)
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- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (4)
- Alexandria [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (2)
- Sketis [Wadi El Natrun] (30.48, 30.29) (2)
- Amida [Diyarbakır] (40.24, 37.91) (1)
- Augustonemetum [Clermont-Ferrand] (3.09, 45.78) (1)
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- Arrested In His Cave At Night (2)
- "and What Was Most Unreasonable In Their Conduct, They Would Not Permit Him Even A Few Hours To Have His Wounds Dressed, But Caused Him To Be Sent Off Immediately, Saying, `if This Is Done, All Men Will Be Afraid, And Henceforward Will Be On Our Side.'" (1)
- He Complained He Was Not Given A Former Trial, Had Last Meeting With Bishops Faithful To Him In The Hagia Sophia. He Ordered A Mule, But Slipped Out By A Side Entrance Lest To Provoke Demonstrations. He Boarded A Vessel Alongside His Escorts (1)
- Philippus Ordered Him To A Public Bath, Showed Him The Emperor's Letter And Brought Him To A Boat (1)
- Detained During Flight From Battle Of Placentia (1)
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- 15 Days Of Disputation In Praetorium In Alexandria In 356 (2)
- Converted Island Population, Transformed Local Temple Into A Church (2)
- Visited Council Of Serdica In 343 (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)
- After His Return, He Ordained Many Bishops, E.g. Maris Of Doliche (1)
Related people more
- Constantius Ii (6)
- Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus (6)
- Flavius Valens (4)
- Lucius Of Alexandria (4)
- Theodosius Ii (4)
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Reason for death
- Unknown (4)
- Confined In A Dark Place And Left Do Die (1)
- Died On His Way To The Mines Because Of Injuries Sustained During Torture (1)
- Starvation (1)
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- No (20)
- Yes (14)
- Confessor (2)
- 'obtained The Glory Of Martyrdom' (1)
- Isidore Of Seville Considers Him A Martyr (1)
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Person/Group Name | Exile Date | Sent From | Went To | Returned | Previous Office | Relationships | Sources |
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View Case | from: 512 to: 518 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Petra [Petra] | no | bishop | Marcellinus Comes, chronica 512 (MGH Auct. ant. 11:98) | |
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) | ||
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) | |
Apollus
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from: 358 to: -- | Egypt or Lybia [Egypt or Lybia] | unknown [unknown] | unknown | bishop | Athanasius, historia Arianorum 72 (PG 25:780) | |
Arius
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from: 319 to: -- | Alexandria [Alexandria] | n/a | presbyter | Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 1.4 (NPNF) | ||
Asclepas of Gaza
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from: 337 to: 344 | Gaza [Gaza] | yes | bishop | Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.15 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.8 Athanasius, historia Arianorum 5.2 Athanasius, de fuga 3.3 | ||
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 | ||
Caelestius
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from: 418 to: -- | Roma [Rome] | no | other | Codex canonum (PL 56:490-93) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R19EImjpsB0C&pg=PT229#v=onepage&q&f=false | ||
Cyrillus of Jerusalem
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from: 360 to: 361 | Ierusalem [Jerusalem] | yes | bishop | Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.22-3 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.42, 3.1 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.25, 5.4 | ||
Elias of Jerusalem
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from: 516 to: 518 | Ierusalem [Jerusalem] | Castellum Paraxenense (in Aila?) [Eilat] | no | bishop | Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 509 (MGH auct. ant. 11:194) | |
Eparchius Avitus (PLRE 2, Avitus 5, 106-8)
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from: 456 to: -- | Placentia [Piacenza] | Placentia [Piacenza] | no | n/a | Auctarium Prosperi Hauniensis 456 (MGH auct. ant. 9: 304); Hydatius Lemicus, chronica 183 (s.a. 456); Chronica Gallica 511, no. 628; Theophanes, AM 5948; John of Antioch frg. 225 (Mariev 412); Jordanes, Getica 240 (MGH AA 5:119); Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 456 (MGH AA 11.2:186); Gregorius of Tours, historiae 2.11 (MGH SRM 1.1:61); Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 2.7; Auctarium Prosperi Hauniensis, s.a. 456; | |
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; |
Eutyches
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from: 451 to: -- | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Doliche [Dülük] | unknown | abbot | Leo, epistulae 84 (ACO 2.4:44), 93.3 (PL 54:939) http://books.google.de/books?id=9fgQAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PT423#v=onepage&q&f=false Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector, historia ecclesiastica frg. 356 (GCS n.F. 3:100) | |
Eutychius (subdeacon in Alexandria)
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from: 358 to: 358 | Alexandria [Alexandria] | Phaino [Wadi Faynan] | no | other | Athanasius, historia Arianorum 60 (PG 25:765) | |
'Fathers'
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from: 553 to: 565 | yes | bishop | Venantius Fortunatus, Appendix 2, 39-42 (J. George, Translated Texts for Historians, 113) | |||
Felix (PCBE 1, Felix 85, 439)
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from: 484 to: -- | Biha Bilta [Henchir-Behaia] | Corsica [Corsica] | unknown | bishop | Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae, ed. C. Halm, Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae, MGH, AA, III.I (Berlin, 1879), pp.63-71, Proconsularis 4. | |
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; | |
Flavianus of Antioch
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from: 512 to: 518 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Petra [Petra] | no | bishop | Marcellinus comes, chronica 512 (MGH 11:98) ; Malalas, chronica 16.11 (Dindorf 400); Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 3.32 (SC 542:482); Ioannes of Nikiu, chronica 89.70; Theophanes, AM 6004 (de Boor 156); Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 516-517 (Harrak, 48); | |
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: 404 to: 407 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Kokousos [Göksun] | no | bishop |
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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: 542 to: -- | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Monastery in the palace of Hormisdas [Boukoleon Palace] | yes | deacon | Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 47 (PO 18, 680-81) | |
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) | |
Iohannes of Paltus
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from: 512 to: -- | Paltos [Arab al-Mulk] | Petra [Petra] | no | bishop |
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Marcellinus comes, chronica 512 (MGH 11:98) |
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) |
Lucius of Adrianopolis
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from: 343 to: 344 | Hadrianopolis [Tadmur] | yes | bishop | Athanasius, historia Arianorum 19.1 Athanasius, de fuga 3.3 Athanasius, apologia secunda 43.2 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.15, 23 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.8, 24 (NPNF) | ||
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) | |
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) | |
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 | |
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 | |
Pelagius of Laodicea
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from: 373 to: -- | Laodicea [Latakia] | Arabia [Arabia] | unknown | bishop | Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.12-13 (NPNF) | |
Protogenes
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from: 373 to: 379 | Edessa [Şanlıurfa] | Antinoopolis [El Sheikh Ibada] | yes | presbyter | Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.18 (SC 530:248) | |
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 | |
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) | |
Theodogild
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from: 567 to: -- | Lutetia [Paris] | Col. Arelate [Arles] | no | other | Gregorius of Tours, historiae 4.26 (MGH SS rer. Merov. 1.1:159) | |
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) | |
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) | |
Virgins
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from: 358 to: -- | Alexandria [Alexandria] | Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga] | unknown | unknown | Athanasius, historia Arianorum 72 (PG 25:780); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.14; |