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- Non-Chalcedonianism (6)
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- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (9)
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- Alexandria [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (1)
- Amida [Diyarbakır] (40.24, 37.91) (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)
- Philippus Ordered Him To A Public Bath, Showed Him The Emperor's Letter And Brought Him To A Boat (1)
- Arrested After Three Days, Following Intervention From The Crowd, Handed Himself Over To Chief Of Police, Put Aboard A Ship (1)
- 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 Founded Two Monasteries In Claudias, One For Women, One For Men. (1)
- He Had Access To Council Acts (1)
- He Introduced A More Nestorian Theology To The Persian Church (1)
- After His Return, He Ordained Many Bishops, E.g. Maris Of Doliche (1)
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- Flavius Arcadius (5)
- Flavius Theodosius (5)
- Crowd In Constantinople (4)
- Eudoxius Of Antioch (4)
- Flavius Valens (4)
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- Unknown (2)
- Allegedly Died After Falling From A Horse, But According To John Moschus His Intestines Exploded While Sitting On A Toilet (1)
- Confined In A Dark Place And Left Do Die (1)
- Execution (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
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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) | |
Assembly of clerics in Armenia
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from: 536 to: -- | Armenia [Armenia] | Claudias [unknown] | unknown | other | Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 21 (PO 82:287-92) | |
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 |
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) | |
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) | |
Dioscorus of Alexandria
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from: 451 to: 454 | Constantinopolis [Istanbul] | Gangra [Çankırı] | no | bishop | Priscus frg. 28 Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 2.5 (SC 542:256) Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 453 (MGH AA 11.2: 185) Liberatus, Breviarium 14 (ACO 2.5: 123) Theophanes AM 5944-5 (De Boor: 105-108) Zacharias, historia ecclesiastica 3.2 (CSCO 83:154-5, 87:106). | |
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) | ||
Eulalius (PCBE 2, Eulalius 2, 680-81)
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from: 419 to: 419 | Roma [Rome] | yes | bishop | collectio Avellana 20-29 (CSEL 35.1:61-5) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/66/mode/2up Liber Pontificalis 44 (Duchesne I:89-92) https://archive.org/stream/bookofpopesliber00loom#page/88/mode/2up | ||
Eunomius of Cyzikus (PCBE 3, Eunomius 1, 295-342)
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from: 358 to: 360 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Midaion [Karahöyük] | n/a | deacon | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 4.5, 4.8 Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.27, p. 160-61 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.13.5-6, p. 156 Gregory of Nyssa, contra Eunomium | |
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) | |
Hypatius
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from: 380 to: -- | Nicaea [Iznik] | Cyrus [Duruca] | unknown | unknown | Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.19 | |
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 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 |
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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 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 | |
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 | |
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) | |
Nestorius
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from: 431 to: 450 | Ephesus [Selçuk] | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | no | bishop |
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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); |
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) | |
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) | |
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) |
Rhodon of Asia
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from: 404 to: -- | Asia [Anatolia] | Mytilene [Mytilene] | unknown | bishop |
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Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402) |
Sabinianus
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from: 415 to: -- | Roma [Rome] | Bethlehem [Bethlehem] | unknown | deacon | Hieronymus, epistula 147.11 (Labourt 8: 131) | |
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) | |
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) | |
Susanna
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from: 519 to: 534 | Palaestina [Palestine] | unknown | other | Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 27 (PO 18:541-58) | ||
Theodoretus of Cyrrhus
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from: 444 to: 450 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Cyrus [Duruca] | n/a | bishop | Theodoret, epistula 79-83, 138 | |
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); | |
Thomas the Armenian
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from: 536 to: 566 | Armenia [Armenia] | Claudias [unknown] | unknown | abbot | Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 21 (PO 82:287-92) | |
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 |