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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 30 of 30
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- Refusal To Subscribe To Arianism (4)
- Non-Chalcedonianism (3)
- Public Agitation Against The Emperor (2)
- Broken Chalice (1)
- Criticism Of Synodical Letter By John Of Constantinople (1)
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- Council Of Constantinople (1)
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- Recalled (10)
- Population Demands Return (4)
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- Antiochia/theoupolis [Antakya] (36.17, 36.20) (4)
- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (4)
- Sketis [Wadi El Natrun] (30.48, 30.29) (4)
- Carthago [Carthage] (10.32, 36.85) (3)
- Ierusalem [Jerusalem] (35.23, 31.78) (3)
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- Island In Nile Delta [Island In Nile Delta] (31.12, 30.90) (4)
- Antinoopolis [El Sheikh Ibada] (30.88, 27.81) (2)
- Adurbadagan [Iranian Azerbaijan] (46.20, 37.01) (1)
- Armenia [Armenia] (44.95, 40.38) (1)
- Col. Augusta Treverorum [Trier] (6.64, 49.76) (1)
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- Island In Nile Delta (4)
- Antiochia/theoupolis (3)
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- Col. Augusta Treverorum (2)
- Constantinopolis (2)
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- Sketis [Wadi El Natrun] (30.48, 30.29) (4)
- Alexandria [Alexandria] (29.91, 31.20) (2)
- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] (28.98, 41.01) (2)
- Roma [Rome] (12.49, 41.89) (2)
- Antiochia/theoupolis [Antakya] (36.17, 36.20) (1)
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- Arrested In His Cave At Night (4)
- 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)
- Philippus Ordered Him To A Public Bath, Showed Him The Emperor's Letter And Brought Him To A Boat (1)
- Maximam Turbam Clericorum Navibus Fractis Inpositam Nudos Atque Expoliatos - Put Naked On Dangerous Ships Along With A Crowd Of Clergy And Despoiled (1)
- While In Prison, He Is About To Be Sent Into Exile On A Ship, But Dies In Prison And Is Thrown Into The Sea (1)
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- Converted Island Population, Transformed Local Temple Into A Church (4)
- He Refuted The Arian Creed In His Writings. (1)
- Silvanus Allowed Cyril To Take Part In The Church Ministration, Despite The Warnings Of Acacius. Cyril Also Attended A Council In Seleucia. (1)
- He Attempted To Convert The Pagan Population (1)
- He Attempted To Convert The Pagan Population And Founded A Christian School (1)
Related people more
- Flavius Valens (7)
- Constantius Ii (6)
- Lucius Of Alexandria (5)
- Heraclides (4)
- Ioannes Of Ephesus (4)
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Reason for death
- Confined In A Dark Place And Left Do Die (1)
- Execution (1)
- The Magistrates Changes His Mind And Decides To Have Him Executed On The Journey (1)
- The Magistrates Changes His Mind And Decides To Have Him Thrown Out Into The Sea On His 'exile Journey' After He Had Died In Prison (1)
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Person/Group Name | Exile Date | Sent From | Went To | Returned | Previous Office | Relationships | Sources |
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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) | ||
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 | |
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 | ||
Bretannio of Tomi
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from: 376 to: 376 | Tomis [Dobruja] | yes | bishop | Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.21 (NPNF) | ||
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 | ||
Cyrillus of Jerusalem
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from: 366 to: 378 | Ierusalem [Jerusalem] | yes | bishop | Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 5.2 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 5.2 Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.12, 7.1 | ||
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) | |
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 |
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) | ||
Iohannes the Nazarite and 30 monks
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from: 500 to: -- | Zuqnin Monastery [Diyarbakır] | unknown [unknown] | unknown | abbot | Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 3 (PO 17:36-55) | |
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
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from: 373 to: 380 | Sketis [Wadi El Natrun] | Island in Nile Delta [Island in Nile Delta] | yes | other |
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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 | |
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 | ||
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) | ||
Meletius of Antioch
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from: 361 to: 362 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | yes | bishop | Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.44, 3.9 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.28 (NPNF) | ||
Meletius of Antioch
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from: 371 to: 378 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | Armenia [Armenia] | yes | bishop | Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 5.5 (NPNF) Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.12-13 (NPNF) | |
Meletius of Antioch
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from: 365 to: 371 | Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] | yes | bishop | Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.28, 6.31 (NPNF) | ||
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 | ||
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 | |
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; | ||
Protogenes
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from: 373 to: 379 | Edessa [Şanlıurfa] | Antinoopolis [El Sheikh Ibada] | yes | presbyter | Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 4.18 (SC 530:248) | |
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) | ||
Susanna
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from: 519 to: 534 | Palaestina [Palestine] | unknown | other | Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 27 (PO 18:541-58) |