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Person/Group Name Exile Date Sent From Went To Returned Previous Office Relationships Sources
Arius
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from: 319 to: -- Alexandria [Alexandria] n/a presbyter Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 1.4 (NPNF)
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: 362 to: 363 Alexandria [Alexandria] yes bishop Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 3.14
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: 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)
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;
Ioannes Chrysostomos
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from: 403 to: 403 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] yes bishop sources according to J.N.D. Kelly, Golden Mouth, The story of John Chrysostom - ascetic, preacher, bishop, London 1996
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)
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);
Paulus of Antioch
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from: 571 to: 572 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Monastery of the Abrahamites [n/a] unknown bishop Ioannes of Ephesus, historia ecclesiastica 1.17, 2.2 E.W. Brooks, 'The Patriarch Paul of Antioch and the Alexandrine schism’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 30 (1929), 468-76
Photinus of Sirmium
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from: 351 to: 362 Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica] yes bishop Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.29-30 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.6, 15 (NPNF)
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)
Theodoretus of Cyrrhus
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from: 444 to: 450 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Cyrus [Duruca] n/a bishop Theodoret, epistula 79-83, 138
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