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Person/Group Name Exile Date Sent From Went To Returned Previous Office Relationships Sources
Adelphius of Onouphis
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from: 358 to: -- Onouphis [Maḥallat Minūf] Psinabla [Shandaweil] unknown bishop Athanasius, historia Arianorum 72 (PG 25:780); Athanasius, de fuga 7 (PG 25:653); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.14 (SC 501:394) Palladius, Historia Lausiaca 46.2
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
Alexander Acoemetes
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from: 420 to: -- Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Chalcis ad Belum [Qinnasrin] unknown abbot Vita Alexandri Acoemeti 41-2 (PO 6:690-91)
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)
anonymous exile in Mauretania
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from: 439 to: -- Cartenna [Ténès] n/a unknown
AE 1967, 00651 = AE 2007, +00127 exili{l}u(!) probatam
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
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)
Columbanus (PCBE 4, Columbanus 1, 497-508)
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Unknown Augustodunum [Autun] Aballo [Avallon] n/a abbot John of Bobbio, Vita Columbani, 22; Fredegar, Chronicon - The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar: with its Continuations, ed. J.M. Wallace-Hadrill (London: 1960), 4.36; Columbanus, Epistle 4.
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).
Donatianus presbyter (PCBE 1, Donatianus 1, 283)
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from: 446 to: -- Madauros [M'daourouch] no presbyter
ILAlg-01, 02759 = ILCV 01601a = AE 1916, 00082 = AE 2007, +00127 Donatianus pr(e)sb(yter) / in exilio pro fide ca/t(h)olica hic aput col(oniam) Mad(auros) / relegatus recessit die / Nonas Apriles anno VII Kartha/g(i)n(is) vixit annis XCVI
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)
Eugenius of Carthage (PCBE Eugenius 2)
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from: 484 to: 487 Carthago [Carthage] Turris Tamalleni [Telmine] yes bishop Victor of Vita, historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae 3.34, 42-44 (CSEL 7:89). Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae, ed. C. Halm, Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae, MGH, AA, III.I (Berlin, 1879), pp.63-71, 1. Gennadius, De Viris Illustribus, 97. Victor of Tunnuna, chronica, a.479. Laterculus regum Vandalorum et Alanorum, ed. T. Mommsen, MGH ASA 13, Chronica Minora 3 (Berlin: 1898), pp.456-60, Augiensis 5:8.
Eugenius of Carthage (PCBE Eugenius 2)
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from: 496 to: 505 Carthago [Carthage] Albiga [Albi] no bishop Gregorius of Tours, historiae, 2.3. Gregorius of Tours, Glory of the Martyrs, ed. and trans. R. Van Dam (Liverpool: 2004), 57.
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)
Euphemius of Constantinople
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from: 496 to: 515 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Euchaita [Beyözü] no bishop Ioannes of Nikiu, chronica 89.46; Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 496 (MGH AA 11.2: 192); Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector, historia ecclesiastica 457 (GCS 53:128); Malalas, chronica 16.11 (Dindorf, 400); Theophanes, AM 5989 (de Boor, 140); Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 488-489, 497-498 (Harrak, 37-8);
Eusebius of Samosata
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from: 373 to: 378 Samosata [Samsat] Thracia [Thrace] yes bishop 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)
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
Flavianus of Constantinople
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from: 449 to: 449 Ephesus [Selçuk] Hypaipa [Günlüce (Datbey)] no bishop Collectio Avellana 99 (CSEL 35.1:443) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/442/mode/2up Marcellinus comes, chronica 449 (MGH auct. ant. 11:83): Flauianus episcopus in secunda aput Ephesum synodo ui Dioscori Alexandriae episcopi et Saturnini spadonis in Epipam exulatus est. Theophanes, AM 5941. ACO 2.1.1 epp. 2-4, 14. Leo, epistulae 45, 54, 62, 63, 64, 77 (PL 54)
Gregorius
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Hispania [Spain] Divona (civitas Carducorum) [Cahors] no unknown CIL 13, 01547 (4, p 20) = ILCV 04446 = CLE 01419 = RICG-08, 00060 = CAG-46, p 140 = AE 2007, +00127 Conditus hoc tumulo tegitur / Gregorius exul / exulis et Petri quem / posuere manus / qui tamen Hispana natus / tellure supremum / conplet Cadurcis morte / deflenda diem
Habetdeum of Thamallula (PCBE Habetdeum 4)
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from: 484 to: -- Tamalluma [unknown] Turris Tamalleni [Telmine] unknown bishop Victor of Vita, Historia Persecutionis 3.45-46; 53-54 Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae, Byzac. 55
Hypatius
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from: 380 to: -- Nicaea [Iznik] Cyrus [Duruca] unknown unknown Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.19
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 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)
Liberatus presbyter (PCBE 1, Liberatus 6, 638)
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from: 439 to: -- Madauros [M'daourouch] no presbyter
ILAlg-01, 02760 = ILCV 01601b = AE 1916, 00083 = AE 2007, +00127 Presbyter Libe/ratus pro fide / cat(h)olica in exsili/o reces(s)it in pace et v(i)x(it) / annis LXXV / depositus est / die XVII Ka(lendas) Iulias
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
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);
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
Paulus of Edessa
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from: 522 to: 526 Edessa [Şanlıurfa] Euchaita [Beyözü] yes bishop Zacharias, historia ecclesiastica 8.4 (CSCO 84:75, 88:51) Chronicum Edessenum 89-92 (CSCO Scr. Syr. 3.4,1903: 9-10) https://archive.org/stream/chronicaminorapa00guid#page/8/mode/2up
Petrus Mongus
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from: 477 to: 482 Alexandria [Alexandria] Euchaita [Beyözü] yes bishop Theodorus (Anagnostes) Lector, historia ecclesiastica 422-4 (GCS n.F. 3: 117); Theophanes, AM 5976 (de Boor 130); Collectio Avellana, epistula 70.4 (CSEL 35.1:156-7) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/156/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)
Reparatus of Carthage
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from: 552 to: 563 Carthago [Carthage] Euchaita [Beyözü] unknown bishop Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 552, 563 (MGH auct. ant. 11:202, 205)
Rhodon of Asia
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from: 404 to: -- Asia [Anatolia] Mytilene [Mytilene] unknown bishop
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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);
Zenobius of Zephyria
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from: 432 to: -- Zephyrion [İçel] Tiberias [Tiberias] unknown bishop ACO 1.4:203-4, no. 279
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