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Person/Group Name Exile Date Sent From Went To Returned Previous Office Relationships Sources
Aaron of Arsamosata
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from: 518 to: -- Arsamosata [Elazığ] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
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
Basilius of Ancyra
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from: 360 to: 365 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Illyricum [n/a] no bishop Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 5.1 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.24 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 3.25
Caelestius
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from: 429 to: -- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] no other ACO 1.3:5-9; 1.2:85-88; 1.5.1:65
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)
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).
Eparchius Avitus (PLRE 2, Avitus 5, 106-8)
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from: 456 to: -- Placentia [Piacenza] Placentia [Piacenza] no n/a Auctarium Prosperi Hauniensis 456 (MGH auct. ant. 9: 304); Hydatius Lemicus, chronica 183 (s.a. 456); Chronica Gallica 511, no. 628; Theophanes, AM 5948; John of Antioch frg. 225 (Mariev 412); Jordanes, Getica 240 (MGH AA 5:119); Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 456 (MGH AA 11.2:186); Gregorius of Tours, historiae 2.11 (MGH SRM 1.1:61); Evagrius, historia ecclesiastica 2.7; Auctarium Prosperi Hauniensis, s.a. 456;
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 Aphrodisias
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from: 518 to: -- Aphrodisias [Geyre] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
Eustathius of Perrhe
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from: 518 to: -- Perre [Örenli] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
Eutychius (subdeacon in Alexandria)
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from: 358 to: 358 Alexandria [Alexandria] Phaino [Wadi Faynan] no other Athanasius, historia Arianorum 60 (PG 25:765)
Flavius Longinus (PLRE 2, Longinus 6, 689-90)
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from: 492 to: 499 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Alexandria [Alexandria] no n/a Theophanes, AM 5984; Zonaras 14.3.20; John of Antioch, fragmentum 214b
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Macedonius of Constantinople
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from: 360 to: -- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] no bishop Philostorgius, historia ecclesiastica 5.1 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.42-3, 45 (NPNF)
Marion of Shura
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from: 518 to: -- Shura [Savur] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
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)
Monks and nuns in Syria
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from: 525 to: -- Syria [Syria] no other Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, chronicon 3.22 (transl. Witakowski, 23)
Monks at Antioch
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from: 373 to: -- Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Neocaesarea [Niksar] no other Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.22.36 (SC 530:290)
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 Circesium
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from: 518 to: -- Circesium [Buseira] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
Paulus of Callinicum
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from: 518 to: -- Callinicum [ar-Raqqa] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
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
Peter of Alinda
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from: 518 to: -- Alinda [Karpuzlu] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
Peter of Resh'ayna
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from: 518 to: -- Resaina [Ras al-Ayn] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
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)
Photinus of Sirmium
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from: 364 to: -- Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica] no bishop Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 107
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)
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)
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)
Theodogild
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from: 567 to: -- Lutetia [Paris] Col. Arelate [Arles] no other Gregorius of Tours, historiae 4.26 (MGH SS rer. Merov. 1.1:159)
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 Dara
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from: 518 to: -- Adra(h)a [Daraa] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
Twelve bishops from the Antioch area
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from: 521 to: -- Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] no bishop
Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 18 (PO 18:513-26)
Valerianus of Avensa (PCBE 1, Valerianus 3, 1138)
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from: 455 to: 477 Avensa [Bordj-Hamdouna] no n/a PCBE 1, Valerianus 3, 1138
Zeuxis of Alabanda
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from: 518 to: -- Alabanda [Doğanyurt, Çine] no bishop Chronicle of Zuqnin, Third part, 517-518 (Harrak, 51)
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