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Person/Group Name Exile Date Sent From Went To Returned Previous Office Relationships Sources
11 bishops of Egypt
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from: 373 to: -- Egypt [Egypt] Sepphoris/Diocaesarea [n/a] unknown bishop Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.22.35 (SC 530:288) Palladius, Historia Lausiaca 46.2
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)
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
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
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
Cyriacus of Emesa
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from: 404 to: -- Emesa [Homs] Palmyra [Tadmur] unknown bishop Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402)
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)
Cyrillus of Jerusalem
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from: 360 to: 361 Ierusalem [Jerusalem] yes bishop Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.22-3 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.42, 3.1 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.25, 5.4
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)
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)
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)
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.
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 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)
Ioannes of Harran
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from: 518 to: -- Carrhae [Altınbaşak] unknown bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
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)
Isidorus of Hermopolis
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from: 373 to: -- Hermopolis [El-Ashmunein] Sepphoris/Diocaesarea [n/a] unknown bishop
Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.22.35 (SC 530:288) Palladius, Historia Lausiaca 46.2
Isidorus of Kenneshrin
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from: 536 to: 536 Chalcis ad Belum [Qinnasrin] Alexandria [Alexandria] no bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 13 (PO 82:189) Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, chronicon 3.32 (transl. Witakowski, 31-32) Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 50)
Iulianus of Halicarnassus
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from: 518 to: -- Halicarnassus [Bodrum] Alexandria [Alexandria] unknown bishop Theophanes, AM 6011 Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
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
Mare of Amida
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from: 521 to: 529 Amida [Diyarbakır] Petra [Petra] unknown bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 13 (PO 17:188-195) Zacharias, historia ecclesiastica 8.5 (CSCO 84:77-82, 88:52-57) Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518, 525-526 (Harrak, 50, 60) (= Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, chronicon 3.32 (transl. Witakowski, 31-32)
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);
Nonnus of Seleucia
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from: 518 to: -- Seleukeia Pieria [Çevlik] Amida [Diyarbakır] unknown bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 50)
Palladius of Helenopolis
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from: 404 to: -- Helenopolis [Hersek] Syene [Aswan] unknown bishop
Palladius, Vita Joannis Chrysostomi 20 (SC 341:396-402)
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 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;
Petrus of Apamea
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from: 519 to: 544 Apamea [Qalaat al-Madiq] Constantinopolis [Istanbul] no bishop Theophanes, AM 6011 (De Boor 165) ACO I.3:100, 264 Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 50)
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 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)
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)
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 Jerusalem
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from: 453 to: 457 Ierusalem [Jerusalem] yes bishop Narratio de obitu Theodosii Hierosolymorum et Romani monachi (trad. E.W. Brooks, Vita virorum apud Monophysitas celeberrimorum, vol. 1, CSCO 8, 1907, 15-17) https://archive.org/stream/vitaevirorumapud00broo#page/14/mode/2up
Theophilus
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from: 358 to: -- Nicomedia [İzmit] Heraclea in Pontus [Karadeniz Ereğli] unknown bishop Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 4.8 (PG 65:521)
Theosebius of Ephesus
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from: 518 to: 518 Ephesus [Selçuk] Constantinopolis [Istanbul] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
Thomas of Damascus
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from: 518 to: -- Damascus [Damascus] unknown bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 50)
Thomas of Germanicia
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from: 518 to: -- Germanikeia [Kahramanmaraş] unknown bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 50-51)
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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