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Person/Group Name Exile Date Sent From Went To Returned Previous Office Relationships Sources
300 of the clergy of Theodosius
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from: 536 to: -- Alexandria [Alexandria] Fortress Derkos [n/a] unknown unknown Ioannes of Ephesus, Life of Z’ura (PO 17:35) Ioannes of Ephesus, Life of John of Hephaistopolis (PO 18:528-529)
African clergy
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from: 439 to: -- Carthago [Carthage] Neapolis [Naples] unknown unknown Victor of Vita, historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae 1.15 (MGH auct. ant. 3.1:5)
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
Antonius
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from: 404 to: -- Palaestina [Palestine] unknown unknown
Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402)
Arius
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from: 333 to: 335 Alexandria [Alexandria] yes unknown Opitz, Urkunde 33/28, 34/27 See T. Barnes, 'The Exiles and Recalls of Arius', Journal of Theological Studies 60 (2009), 109-129
around 500 clerics in Carthage, mostly lectors and children
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from: 484 to: -- Carthago [Carthage] unknown unknown Victor of Vita, historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae 3.34 (CSEL 7:89)
Barsauma
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from: 451 to: -- Edessa [Şanlıurfa] Nisibis [Nusaybin] no unknown
S. Gerö, Barsauma of Nisibis and Persian Christianity in the Fifth Century (CSCO 426 Subs. 63), Louvain 1981, 60–72
Cataphrygians
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from: 401 to: -- Roma [Rome] unknown monastery [n/a] unknown unknown Liber Pontificalis 42 (Duchesne I:220) https://archive.org/stream/duchesne01/duchesne1#page/n509/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/bookofpopesliber00loom#page/84/mode/2up
Clerics at Antioch
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from: 373 to: -- Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Neocaesarea [Niksar] no unknown Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.22.36 (SC 530:290)
clerics from Antioch, from the banks of the Euphrates, and from Cilicia, Galatia, and Asia
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from: 358 to: -- unknown unknown Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.24 (NPNF)
clerics of Ravenna
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from: 601 to: 601 Ravenna [Ravenna] Sicilia [Sicily] unknown unknown Gregorius Magnus, epistula 11.24 (CCSL 140A:894-5).
Clerics supporting Basilius of Ancyra
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from: 360 to: -- Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] unknown unknown Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 5.1
Crescentius
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from: 591 to: -- Church of Venafrum in Campania [Venafro] unknown unknown Gregorius Magnus, epistula 1.66 (CCSL 140:76)
Donatists
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from: 317 to: -- Africa [n/a] unknown unknown Optatus 2.15.4 (SC 412) Augustinus, epistula 141.9 (CSEL 44:243)
Donatists
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from: 324 to: -- North Africa [North Africa] unknown unknown Eusebius, vita Constantini 2.66
Donatists
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from: 315 to: 321 North Africa [North Africa] yes unknown Augustinus, contra Donatistas 31.54 (CSEL 53:154) Augustinus, Breuiculus collationis cum Donatistis 3.40 (CCSL 149A) Augustinus, Psalmus contra partem Donati 54 (Anastasi, Padua 1957)
Donatists
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from: 345 to: 362 North Africa [North Africa] yes unknown Optatus, contra Parmenianum Donatistam 2.16; 3.4
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
Eunomius of Cyzikus (PCBE 3, Eunomius 1, 295-342)
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from: 370 to: 378 Island of Naxos [Naxos] yes unknown Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.11
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)
Followers of Eunomius
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from: 396 to: -- unknown unknown Codex Theodosianus 16.5.31-32
Followers of Eunomius and Montanus
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from: 398 to: -- unknown unknown Codex Theodosianus 16.5.34
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
Hilarius (ascetic)
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from: 404 to: -- Pontus [Anatolia] unknown unknown
Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402)
Honorata
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from: 594 to: 594 Sicilia [Sicily] yes unknown Gregorius Magnus, epistula 4.34 (CCSL 140:254)
Hypatius
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from: 380 to: -- Nicaea [Iznik] Cyrus [Duruca] unknown unknown Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.19
Isaac (Donatist)
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from: 347 to: 347 Carthago [Carthage] no unknown The Passion of Maximian and Isaac 3, 12 (in M. Tilley, Donatist Martyr Stories, 1996)
Lapsed priests, deacons or other clergy
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from: 591 to: -- Sicilia [Sicily] Sicilia [Sicily] unknown unknown Gregorius Magnus, epistula 1.42 (CCSL 140:54)
Manichaeans
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from: 384 to: -- Roma [Rome] unknown unknown Liber Pontificalis 40 (Duchesne I:216) https://archive.org/stream/duchesne01/duchesne1#page/n505/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/bookofpopesliber00loom#page/84/mode/2up
Manichaeans
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from: 492 to: -- Roma [Rome] unknown unknown Liber Pontificalis 51 (Duchesne I:255) https://archive.org/stream/duchesne01/duchesne1#page/n545/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/bookofpopesliber00loom#page/110/mode/2up
Manichaeans
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from: 428 to: -- unknown unknown Codex Iustinianus 1.5.5.1
Manichaeans and heretics
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from: 425 to: -- unknown unknown
Constitutiones Sirmondianae 6
Maximianus (Donatist)
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from: 347 to: 347 Carthago [Carthage] no unknown The Passion of Maximian and Isaac 3, 12 (in M. Tilley, Donatist Martyr Stories, 1996)
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)
Monks, Clergy and Laity who support Macedonius
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from: 511 to: -- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga] unknown unknown Theophanes, AM 6005
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)
Petrus (in Divona)
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Divona (civitas Carducorum) [Cahors] unknown 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
Romanus (cleric at the church of Teano)
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from: 559 to: -- Teanum Sidicinum [Teano (Caserta)] unknown unknown Pelagius, epistula 54 (Gassò and Batlle: 143-4)
Samuel (abbot)
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from: 539 to: 551 Monastery of the Huts in the district of Claudias [unknown] no unknown Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 58 (PO 19:207-8)
Servus Dei
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from: 591 to: -- Church of Venafrum in Campania [Venafro] unknown unknown Gregorius Magnus, epistula 1.66 (CCSL 140:76)
'the orthodox'
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from: 577 to: -- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Constantinopolis [Istanbul] unknown unknown Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 3.20
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;
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