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This browse area lists all exile cases in the database by the name of the exiled individual or group in alphabetical order. Results will display as a list of exile cases each one of which you can then explore further. You will also be able to refine the list further and display statistical information through using the facets on the left hand side.Showing 1 to 19 of 19
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- Refusal To Condemn Athanasius (4)
- Non-Chalcedonianism (3)
- 'catholic' Faith (2)
- Broken Chalice (1)
- Connection To Nestorianism (1)
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- Book Ban (2)
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- Council Of Milan (2)
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- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (3)
- Antiochia/theoupolis [Antakya] (36.17, 36.20) (2)
- Carthago [Carthage] (10.32, 36.85) (2)
- Mediolan(I)Um [Milan] (9.19, 45.46) (2)
- Calama [Guelma] (7.43, 36.46) (1)
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- Antiochia/theoupolis [Antakya] (36.17, 36.20) (1)
- Beroe [Stara Zagora] (25.62, 42.42) (1)
- Col. Augusta Treverorum [Trier] (6.64, 49.76) (1)
- Euchaita [Beyözü] (35.28, 40.57) (1)
- Germanikeia [Kahramanmaraş] (36.93, 37.59) (1)
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- Alexandria [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (2)
- Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica] (19.61, 44.97) (2)
- Antiochia/theoupolis [Antakya] (36.17, 36.20) (1)
- Carthago [Carthage] (10.32, 36.85) (1)
- Cercina [Kerkennah Islands] (11.23, 34.79) (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)
- Arrested After Three Days, Following Intervention From The Crowd, Handed Himself Over To Chief Of Police, Put Aboard A Ship (1)
- Maximam Turbam Clericorum Navibus Fractis Inpositam Nudos Atque Expoliatos - Put Naked On Dangerous Ships Along With A Crowd Of Clergy And Despoiled (1)
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- 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)
- He Had Access To Council Acts (1)
- He Refuted The Arian Creed In His Writings. (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)
- Gives Speech In Which He Attacks Theophilus While The Crowd Prevents His Arrest. At His Return He Give Another Sermon In Which He Praises Eudoxia. (1)
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- Constantius Ii (7)
- Valens Of Mursa (6)
- Ursacius Of Singidunum (5)
- Liberius Of Rome (4)
- Athanasius (3)
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Reason for death
- Allegedly Died After Falling From A Horse, But According To John Moschus His Intestines Exploded While Sitting On A Toilet (1)
- Execution (1)
- Murdered/suffocation From Fume (1)
- Sickness (1)
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- Yes (10)
- No (6)
- Controversial, There Is A A Local Feast Day. (1)
- Martyr (1)
- Regarded As Confessor By The Orthodox Church (1)
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Person/Group Name | Exile Date | Sent From | Went To | Returned | Previous Office | Relationships | Sources |
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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 | |
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); |
Fulgentius (PCBE 1, Fulgentius 1, 507-13)
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from: 518 to: 523 | Carthago [Carthage] | Sardinia [Sardinia] | yes | bishop | Vita Fulgentii 18-28, trans. R.B. Eno, Fulgentius: Selected Works (Washington, D.C.: 1997) | |
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 |
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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 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) | ||
Liberius of Rome (PCBE 2, Liberius 1, 1297-8)
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from: 356 to: 358 | Roma [Rome] | Beroe [Stara Zagora] | yes | bishop |
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ICUR, NS 9, 24831 Hilarius of Poitiers, coll. Antiar. Paris., B VII (CSEL 65:164-73) Eusebius of Vercelli, epistula 2.4.2 (CCSL 9:106) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.11 and 15 (NPNF) Theoderetus, historia ecclesiastica 2.17 (SC 501:412). Ammianus Marcellinus 15.7.6-10 Gesta inter Liberium et Felicem, collectio Avellana 1-3 (CSEL 35.1:1-2) Rufinus, historia ecclesiastica 10.23 and 28 (Mommsen, 988 and 990-91) Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.37.91-4 Liberius, epistula 3.1 (CCSL 9:123) Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 97 (TU 14.1:47) Athanasius, historia Arianorum 36-41 (Opitz 2.1:203-6) Athanasius, apologia contra Arianos 89 Liber Pontificalis 37 (MGH Gesta pontificum Romanorum 1:77-9) CLE 00787 = ICUR-09, 24831 (p 389) = ILCV 00967 (em) = AE 2007, +00127 Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 4.3 |
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); |
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); |
Osius of Cordoba
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from: 355 to: 357 | Corduba [Córdoba] | Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica] | yes | bishop | Athanasius, historia Arianorum 42-6 (Opitz 2.1:206-10) Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 27 (SC 56:118-9) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.15 (NPNF) Collectio Avellana, epistula 2.32-5 (CSEL 35.1:15) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/14/mode/2up | |
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 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 | |
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) | |
Photinus of Sirmium
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from: 351 to: 362 | Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica] | yes | bishop | Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.29-30 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.6, 15 (NPNF) | ||
Possidius of Calama (PCBE 1, Possidius 1, 890-896)
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from: 437 to: -- | Calama [Guelma] | n/a | bishop | Prosper of Aquitaine, chronica, a. 437 (MGH auct. ant. 9:475-476) | ||
Quodvultdeus of Carthage (PCBE 1, Quodvultdeus 5, 947-949)
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from: 439 to: 454 | Carthago [Carthage] | Neapolis [Naples] | no | bishop | Victor of Vita, historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae 1.15 (MGH auct. ant. 3.1:5) | |
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) |