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Person/Group Name Exile Date Sent From Went To Returned Previous Office Relationships Sources
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)
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
Anthimus of Constantinople
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from: 536 to: 548 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Monastery in the palace of Hormisdas [Boukoleon Palace] yes bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 48 (PO 18, 686-7) Liber Pontificalis 59 (Duchesne)
Antiochus (presbyter)
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from: 373 to: 379 Armenia [Armenia] yes presbyter
Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.15.8 (SC 530:238)
Antipatra (PLRE 3a, Antipatra, 91)
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from: 571 to: 571 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Chalcedon [Kadiköy] yes n/a Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 2.12 Michael Syrus 10.7
Arius
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from: 325 to: 327 Alexandria [Alexandria] Illyricum [n/a] yes presbyter Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 1.8, 1.23-6 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 1.21, 2.16 (NPNF)
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: 339 to: 346 Alexandria [Alexandria] yes bishop TRE, s.v. Athanasius Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium Athanasius, apologia secunda Athanasius, indices epistularum festialium 17 (SC) Socrates, Historia ecclesiastica, 4.23
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
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
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
Conon of Tarsus
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from: 571 to: 571 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Nova Laura of St Sabas [n/a] yes bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 1.31
Cyprianus of Thuburbo Maius (PCBE 1, Cyprianus 3-4, 257-8)
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from: 435 to: 443 Thuburbo Maius [Henchir-Kasbat] Ancyra [Ankara] unknown bishop Theodoret, epistula 52, 53; Gesta collationis Carthaginiensis I, 135
Cyrillus of Jerusalem
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from: 357 to: 359 Ierusalem [Jerusalem] Tarsus [Tarsus] yes bishop Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.22 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.40 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.22 Michael Syrus 7.8 (Chabot 1:309)
Dorotheus of Antioch
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from: 380 to: 388 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Thracia [Thrace] yes bishop Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 9.19
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: 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: 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)
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 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;
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;
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
Flavius Longinus (PLRE 2, Longinus 6, 689-90)
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from: 475 to: 485 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Isauria [Bozkır] yes n/a Marcellinus comes, chronica 485 (MGH auct. ant. 11.2:93); Theophanes, AM 5975 (de Boor 129); John of Antioch, fragmentum 214.1
Florentius (PCBE 1, Florentius 8, 475)
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from: 440 to: 449 North Africa [North Africa] Cyrrus [Khoros] no bishop Theodoret, epistula 22 (21)
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)
Heraclides
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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)
Honorata
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from: 594 to: 594 Sicilia [Sicily] yes unknown Gregorius Magnus, epistula 4.34 (CCSL 140:254)
Horontius (PCBE 1, Horontius, 575)
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from: 508 to: 523 Byzacena [Tunisia] Sardinia [Sardinia] yes bishop
Fulgentius, epistula 16 Fulgentius, epistula 17
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
Illustris (PCBE 1, Illustris, 599)
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from: 508 to: 523 Byzacena [Tunisia] Sardinia [Sardinia] yes bishop
Vita Fulgentii, trans. R.B. Eno, Fulgentius: Selected Works (Washington, D.C.: 1997), chapter 17.
Isidorus
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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)
Macarius of Alexandria
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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) Michael Syrus 7.7 (Chabot 1:305)
Macarius of Egypt
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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) Michael Syrus 7.7 (Chabot 1:305)
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
Marcellus of Ancyra
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from: 336 to: 344 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] yes bishop Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 1.36, 2.15, 29 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 2.33, 3.8, 24 (NPNF) Athanasius, de fuga 3.3
Maris of Chalcedon
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from: 326 to: 328 Chalcedon [Kadiköy] Gaul [France] yes bishop Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 2.7
Martinus of Tours (PCBE 4, Martinus 1, 1267-79)
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from: 356 to: 360 Mediolan(i)um [Milan] yes abbot Sulpicius Severus, Vita Martini 6.4
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)
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);
other disciples of Antony
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from: 373 to: 380 Sketis [Wadi El Natrun] Island in Nile Delta [Island in Nile Delta] yes other Socrates, ecclesiastical history 4.24 (SC 505:100-104) Sozomenus, ecclesiastical history 6.20 (SC 495:334-340)
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
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)
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;
Probinus
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from: 571 to: 577 Imperial palace of Constantinople [Palace of Constantinople] Monastery of Dalmatius [n/a] yes n/a Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 2.38
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)
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);
Tiberianus (PLRE 1, Tiberianus 2, 911)
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from: 385 to: -- Spain or Gaul [Spain or Gaul] Island of Sylinancis [Isles of Scilly] yes n/a Sulpicius Severus, chronica 2.51.2 (SC 441:344) Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 123
Timotheus Aelurus of Alexandria
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from: 454 to: 457 Alexandria [Alexandria] Taposiris [Alexandria] yes bishop Iohannes Rufus, Vita Petr. Ib. 92 (edited by C. B. Horn & R. R. Phenix Jr., John Rufus: The Lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus, Atlanta 2008, 5-281)
Timotheus Basilicus (Salophacialus)
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from: 476 to: 477 Alexandria [Alexandria] Canopus [Aboukir] unknown bishop
Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 3.11 (SC 542:412) Liberatus, Breviarium 16 Theophanes, AM 5967 (de Boor 121)
Victorianus (PCBE 1, Victorianus 12, 1192)
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from: 508 to: 523 Quaestoriana [unknown] Sardinia [Sardinia] yes bishop
Fulgentius, epistula 17 C. Halm, Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae, MGH, AA, III.I (Berlin, 1879), pp.63-71, Byzacenae 87.
Vindicianus (PCBE 1, Vindicianus 1, 1217)
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from: 508 to: 523 Marazanae [unknown] Sardinia [Sardinia] yes bishop
Fulgentius, epistula 17; Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae, ed. C. Halm, Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae, MGH, AA, III.I (Berlin, 1879), pp.63-71, Byzacenae 49.
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