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- Refusal To Condemn Athanasius (3)
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- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (6)
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- Ancyra [Ankara] (32.86, 39.94) (1)
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- 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)
- Philost. He 98: 'this Calumny, And An Attempt Upon His Life On Account Of It, Eunomius Escaped With Great Difficulty. Yet He Was Sent Into Exile In Mauritania ... Led Off Into Exile During The Continuance Of The Bad Weather Of Winter. (1)
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- Visited Council Of Serdica In 343 (2)
- According To Suidas, He Intensely Studied The Motions Of The Universe, Perhaps In Order To Predict His Fate Or That Of The Emperor (1)
- 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)
- Celebrates The Mass, However, Is Interrupted By Anonymous People Who Later Deny To Have Killed An Assistant And Stolen Church Property: Faustinus Et Marcellinus, Libellus Precum 109, Collectio Avellana 2 (Csel 35.1:39). Agrees With Eusebius Of Vercelli To Go To Antioch And Alexandria Respectively In Order To Restore Nicaean Creed, In Addition Sends His Deacons Errenius (Pbce 2, Erennios, 659) And Agapetus (Pbce 2, Agapetos 2, 40) To Alexandria. (1)
- Converted Island Population, Transformed Local Temple Into A Church (1)
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- He Died Soon After His Return To Sykai Because Of The Conditions Of His Incarceration (1)
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- Controversial, There Is A A Local Feast Day. (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) | |
Anastasius of Antioch
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from: 570 to: 593 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | yes | bishop | Theophanes, AM 6062, 6087 (de Boor, 243, 272) Gregorius Magnus, epistula 1.7, 25, 26, 28; 5.39; 7,27, 33; 8.2 (CCSL 140) | ||
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 | |
Apion (PLRE 2, Apion 2, 112)
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from: 510 to: 518 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Nicaea [Iznik] | yes | n/a | Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector 482 (GCS n.F. 3:137); Marcellinus comes, chronica 510 (MGH auct ant. 11:97); Theophanes, AM 6011 (De Boor, 165); John Lydus, de magistratibus 3.17; Malalas, chronica 411; Chronicon Paschale, s.a. 519 | |
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: 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: 365 to: 366 | Alexandria [Alexandria] | yes | bishop | Historia Athanasii 16-17 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 4.13 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.12 | ||
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 | ||
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; | |
Eulogius
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from: 373 to: 379 | Edessa [Şanlıurfa] | Antinoopolis [El Sheikh Ibada] | yes | presbyter | Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.18 (SC 530:248) | |
Eunomius of Cyzikus (PCBE 3, Eunomius 1, 295-342)
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from: 367 to: 368 | Chalcedon [Kadiköy] | Mauretania [Mauritania] | yes | unknown | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.8 | |
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); |
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: 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) |
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); |
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) | ||
Marcianus (usurper) (PLRE 2, Marcianus 17, 717-8)
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from: 479 to: 479 | Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople [Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople] | Caesarea [Kayseri] | yes | n/a | Candidus in Photius, bibliotheca 79; Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector, epitome historiae ecclesiasticae 3.419-20 (ed. Hansen, GCS 54 = Neue Folge 3); John of Antioch, fr. 234.4 (Mariev, 430); Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 3.26 = Eustathius, fr. 3 (SC 542:454); Theophanes AM 5971-2 (De Boor: 127); Suidas P 137 Adler http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/105282/20/ | |
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 | |
Paulus of Constantinople
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from: 339 to: 341 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | yes | bishop | Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.6-7, 12 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.3-4 Athanasius, 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 | ||
Paulus of Constantinople
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from: 342 to: 344 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | yes | bishop | Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.13 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.7 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 | ||
Paulus of Edessa
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from: 519 to: 519 | Edessa [Şanlıurfa] | Seleucia [Babil Governorate] | yes | bishop | Chronicum Edessenum 89-92 (CSCO Scr. Syr. 3.4,1903: 9-10) https://archive.org/stream/chronicaminorapa00guid#page/8/mode/2up Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518, 525-526 (Harrak, 51, 55) | |
Petrus of Alexandria
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from: 373 to: 373 | Alexandria [Alexandria] | yes | bishop | Severus of Hermopolis, historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum 2.9 (translated by Evetts) http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/severus_hermopolis_hist_alex_patr_02_part2.htm#PETER_II Hieronymus, epistula 127.5; Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.21-22; Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.19.6; Gregorius of Nazianzus, oratio 25.12, 33.3, 43.46; | ||
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 | |
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) | |
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 |