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Person/Group Name Exile Date Sent From Went To Returned Previous Office Relationships Sources
View Case from: 512 to: 518 Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya] Petra [Petra] no bishop Marcellinus Comes, chronica 512 (MGH Auct. ant. 11:98)
Addai the Chorepiscopus
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from: 525 to: 555 unknown [unknown] unknown other Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 8 (PO 17:124-35)
Agapitus of Rome (PCBE 2, Agapitus 11, 45-6)
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from: 536 to: -- Constantinopolis [Istanbul] n/a bishop Liber Pontificalis 59 (Duchesne)
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
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
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
Bretannio of Tomi
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from: 376 to: 376 Tomis [Dobruja] yes bishop Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.21 (NPNF)
Caesarius of Arles (PCBE 4, Caesarius 1, 386-410)
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from: 505 to: 505 Col. Arelate [Arles] Burdigala [Bourdeaux] yes bishop Vita Caesarii 1.21 Caesarius, epistula 4
Columbanus (PCBE 4, Columbanus 1, 497-508)
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Unknown Augustodunum [Autun] Aballo [Avallon] n/a abbot John of Bobbio, Vita Columbani, 22; Fredegar, Chronicon - The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar: with its Continuations, ed. J.M. Wallace-Hadrill (London: 1960), 4.36; Columbanus, Epistle 4.
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
Dionysius of Milan (PCBE 2, Dionysius 1, 563-4)
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from: 355 to: 362 Mediolan(i)um [Milan] Armenia [Armenia] no bishop Faustinus et Marcellinus , libellus precum 23, collectio Avellana 2 (CSEL 35.1:12); Ambrosius, epistula 63, 68-71, 21a and 18 (PL 16:1207-9, 1012-3) = epistula 75a, 18, extra coll. 14 and 68-71 (CSEL 82.3:93-4 and 271-3); Vita Dionysii 76 (AASS Mai. VI:46, BHL 2168); Hilarius of Poitiers, textus narrativus (Liber I ad Constantium), App. 7.1 and 1.3 (CSEL 65:164 and 186-7); Sulpicius Severus, Chronica 2.39 (CSEL 1:92-3); Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 27 (SC 56:118-9); Athanasius, de fuga 4 (Opitz 2.1:70-71); Athanasius, historia Arianorum 33.6 and 46.3 (Opitz 2.1:201 and 210); Rufinus, historia ecclesiastica 10.21 (GCS 9.2.2:987-8); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.36 (PG 67:300-302); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.9.3-4 (GCS 50:148); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.15.4 (GCS 19:129); Prosper of Aquitaine, epitoma chronicon 1091 (MGH auct. ant. 9, chronica minora 1:455); Liberius, epistula, in Hilarius, Fragmentum historiarum, App. VII.1 (CSEL 65:164-6); Hieronymus, chronica, ann. 355 (GCS 47:239-40); Basilius of Caesarea, epistula 197 (Courtonne); Ennodius, carmina 1.21 (MGH auct. ant. 7:255-6); CIL V 6183a; Acta Sanctorum, Nov. 2.2:271 (BHL 2168 and 2169); Catalogus archiepiscorum Mediolanensium, MGH script. 8:102;
Eugenius of Carthage (PCBE Eugenius 2)
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from: 484 to: 487 Carthago [Carthage] Turris Tamalleni [Telmine] yes bishop Victor of Vita, historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae 3.34, 42-44 (CSEL 7:89). Notitia Provinciarum et Civitatum Africae, ed. C. Halm, Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae, MGH, AA, III.I (Berlin, 1879), pp.63-71, 1. Gennadius, De Viris Illustribus, 97. Victor of Tunnuna, chronica, a.479. Laterculus regum Vandalorum et Alanorum, ed. T. Mommsen, MGH ASA 13, Chronica Minora 3 (Berlin: 1898), pp.456-60, Augiensis 5:8.
Eugenius of Carthage (PCBE Eugenius 2)
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from: 496 to: 505 Carthago [Carthage] Albiga [Albi] no bishop Gregorius of Tours, historiae, 2.3. Gregorius of Tours, Glory of the Martyrs, ed. and trans. R. Van Dam (Liverpool: 2004), 57.
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)
Eusebius of Vercelli (PCBE 2, Eusebius 1, 692-7)
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from: 355 to: 362 Mediolan(i)um [Milan] Scythopolis/Nysa [Beit She'an] yes bishop Eusebius of Vercelli, epistula 1 ad Constantium (CCSL 9:103); Eusebius of Vercelli, epistula 2 (CCSL 9:104-9); Eusebius of Vercelli, epistula 3 (CCSL 9:110); Eusebius of Vercelli, Appendix II (CCSL 9:119-23); Lucifer of Cagliari, epistula 7 (CCSL 8:319 = CCSL 9:120); Hilarius of Poitiers, textus narrativus (Liber I ad Constantium) 1.3 (CSEL 65:186-7), Hilarius of Poitiers, Fragmentum historiarum, App. VII.1 (CSEL 65:164-5); Sulpicius Severus, Chronica 2.39 (CSEL 1:92-3); Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 27 (SC 56:118-19); Athanasius, De fuga 4 (Opitz II.1:70-71); Athanasius, historia Arianorum 33.6, 46.3, 76.3 (Opitz II.1:201, 210, 225); Faustinus et Marcellinus, Libellus precum 2.23 (CSEL 35.1:12); Gesta inter Liberium et Felicem 2 (CSEL 35.1:1); Hieronymus, chronica, ann. 355 (GCS 47:239-40); Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 96 (TU 14.1:47); Prosper of Aquitaine, epitoma chronicon (MGH auct. ant. 9, chronica minora 1:455); Rufinus , historia ecclesiastica 10.21, 28 (GCS 9.2:987-8, 991); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.36, 3.5 (PG 67:301-2, 388); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.9.3-4 , 5.12.1 (GCS 50:148, 210-11); Theodoret, historia ecclesiastica 2.15.4, 3.4.2 (GCS 19:129, 179); Epiphanius, Panarion 30.5.2 (GCS 25:339-40); CIL V 6722-3; Inscriptiones Christianae 1049-50 (Diehl);
Eutychius of Constantinople
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from: 565 to: 577 Constantinopolis [Istanbul] Monastery of Choracudis [n/a] yes bishop Vita S Eutychii Patriarchae 38-71 (PG 86:2317-56) Theophanes, AM 6057 (de Boor 240) Victor of Tunnuna, chronica 566 (MGH 11:205)
Fulgentius (PCBE 1, Fulgentius 1, 507-13)
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from: 518 to: 523 Carthago [Carthage] Sardinia [Sardinia] yes bishop Vita Fulgentii 18-28, trans. R.B. Eno, Fulgentius: Selected Works (Washington, D.C.: 1997)
Gaudiosus of Naples (PCBE 1, Gaudiosus 4, 528)
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from: 440 to: 455 Abitina/Abitinae [Chouhoud el-Batin] Neapolis [Naples] no bishop Petrus Subdiaconus, vita Sancti Agnelli confessoris, prologus
Hieronymus
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from: 399 to: -- n/a other Hieronymus, epistula 82.10
Hilarius of Poitiers (PCBE 4, Hilarius 1, 989-97)
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from: 356 to: 360 Limonum/Pictavi [Poitiers] Phrygia [Central Anatolia] yes bishop Hilarius of Poitiers, liber contra Auxentium 7 (PL 10:614); Hilarius of Poitiers, ad Constantium 2.1-2 (CSEL 65:197-8); Hilarius of Poitiers, in Constantium 2 and 12-15 (SC 334:170 and 192-8); Hilarius of Poitiers, de synodis 1-2, 8 and 63 (PL 10:479-81, 485 and 522-3); Hilarius of Poitiers, de trinitate 1-3, 4.1 and 10.4 (SC 443:202-386, SC 448:12 and SC 462:178); Hilarius of Poitiers, Fragmentum historiarum A.5-9, B.3.2, B.7.1-2, B.7.5-11 and B.8.1-2 (CSEL 65:78-97, 155-6, 164-73 and 174-7); Venantius Fortunatus, vita s. Hilarii 6 (MGH auct. ant. 4.2:3); Hieronymus, chronica, ann. 356 (Jeanjean-Lancon, 92); Hieronymus, de viris illustribus 100 (Ceresa-Gastaldo, 204); Hieronymus, altercatio Luciferiani et orthodoxi 19 (CCSL 79B:48-9); Faustinus et Marcellinus, libellus precum 24 (SC 504:130); Prosper of Aquitaine, chronica 1096 (ann. 356) (MGH auct. ant. 9:455); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.14.41, 4.12.6 and 4.22 (SC 418:138, 242 and 300-312); Sulpicius Severus, chronica 2.42 and 2.45.2-3 (SC 441:322 and 330); Sulpicius Severus, vita Martini 6.7 and 7.1 (SC 133:266); Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.39-40 (SC 493:200-216); Epistula ab episcopis Gallicanis ad orientales episcopos 1-4 (CCSL 148:33-4);
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
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 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 4.24 (SC 505:100-104) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 6.20 (SC 495:334-340)
Iulius of Rome
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from: 339 to: 340 Roma [Rome] yes bishop Liber Pontificalis 36 (Duchesne I:205) https://archive.org/stream/duchesne01/duchesne1#page/n495/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/bookofpopesliber00loom#page/72/mode/2up
Lucius of Adrianopolis
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from: 343 to: 344 Hadrianopolis [Tadmur] yes bishop Athanasius, historia Arianorum 19.1 Athanasius, de fuga 3.3 Athanasius, apologia secunda 43.2 Socrates, historia ecclesiastica 2.15, 23 (NPNF) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 3.8, 24 (NPNF)
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
Paulinus of Trier (PCBE 4, Paulinus 1, 1443-4)
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from: 354 to: 358 Col. Arelate [Arles] Phrygia [Central Anatolia] no bishop Hilarius of Poitiers, in Constantium 11 (SC 334:90); Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 27 (SC 56:119); Athanasius, historia Arianorum 33-4 and 76.3 (Opitz 2:201-2 and 225); Hilarius of Poitiers, Fragmentum historiarum B I.6 (CSEL 65:102); Hilarius of Poitiers, textus narrativus (liber I ad Constantium) 3 (8) (CSEL 65:187); Faustinus et Marcellinus, libellus precum 21 and 77 (SC 504:128 and 180); Hieronymus, chronica, ann. 354 and 358 (Jeanjean-Lancon, 90 and 94); Prosper of Aquitaine, chronica 1090 (ann. 354) and 1102 (ann. 357) (MGH auct. ant. 9:455-6); Rufinus, historia ecclesiastica 10.20-21 (GCS 9.2:987-8); Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.9.3 (SC 418:218-20); Sulpicius Severus, Chronica 2.54.4 (SC 441:332); Martyrologium Hieronymianum, Acta Sanctorum Nov. 2.2:478; CIL 13, 3782c=ILCV 1612c
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;
Possidius of Calama (PCBE 1, Possidius 1, 890-896)
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from: 437 to: -- Calama [Guelma] n/a bishop Prosper of Aquitaine, chronica, a. 437 (MGH auct. ant. 9:475-476)
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)
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)
Sidonius Apollinaris (PLRE 2, Apollinaris 6; PCBE 4, Sidonius 1)
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from: 475 to: 476 Augustonemetum [Clermont-Ferrand] Liviana [Douzens] yes bishop Sidonius Apollinaris, epistula 4.10, 4.17, 4.22, 7.16, 8.3, 8.9 and 9.3
Susanna
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from: 519 to: 534 Palaestina [Palestine] unknown other Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 27 (PO 18:541-58)
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