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Exile Cases

Exile

Exile Date

Sent From

Went To

Returned

Relationships

Office

Sources

Photius (male) early fifth century (from: --/--/435 to: --/--/435)
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435 - ? (from: --/--/435 to: --/--/--)

Constantinopolis [Istanbul]

Petra [Petra]

unknown

Theodosius II

Interaction Date	435 (from: --/--/435 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
Office	Emperor
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

Emperor (435)

ACO I.4:203 nos. 277-8

Alexander of Hierapolis (male) 431 (from: --/--/-- to: --/--/431)
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after 431- ? (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/--)

Hierapolis/Bambyke [Manbiǧ]

Famothis [Lake Mareotis]

unknown

Theodosius II

Interaction Date	after 431 (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office	Emperor
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	unknown
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

Emperor (after 431)

ACO 1.4:203, no. 279

Nestorius (male) mid fifth century (from: --/--/386 to: --/--/450)
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431 - after 450 (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/450)

Ephesus [Selçuk]

Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya]

Aelia Pulcheria

Interaction Date	431 (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office	Empress
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

Empress (431)

Escorts of Nestorius

Interaction Date	after 436 (from: --/--/436 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Panopolis [Akhmim]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Military Escort
Yes

(after 436)

Companions of Nestorius

Interaction Date	after 436 (from: --/--/436 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Panopolis [Akhmim]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	unknown
Relationship Quality	support

Companion
Yes

(after 436)

Maximianus of Constantinople

Interaction Date	431 (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
Office	Bishop
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	conflict

Successor in post
Yes

Bishop (431)

Flavius Anthemius Isidorus

Interaction Date	436 (from: --/--/436 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
Office	PPO Orientis
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for moving exile to a different location	Successor in post
Yes	Yes

PPO Orientis (436)

Valentinianus III

Interaction Date	3/8/435 (from: 3/8/435 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office	Emperor
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Correspondent	Other Interaction Type
Yes (receiver of letter)	Yes (orders book-burning)

Emperor (3/8/435)

Leontius

Interaction Date	3/8/435 (from: 3/8/435 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
Office	praefectus urbis Constantinopolitanae
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Other Interaction Type
Yes (orders book-burning)

praefectus urbis Constantinopolitanae (3/8/435)

Dorotheus of Marcianopolis

Interaction Date	after 432 (from: --/--/432 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Companion
Yes

(after 432)

Theodoretus of Cyrrhus

Interaction Date	435/6 (from: --/--/435 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Cyrus [Duruca]
Office	Bishop
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Correspondent
Yes (receiver of letter, writer of letter)

Interaction Date	after 449 (from: --/--/449 to: --/--/451)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	conflict?

Correspondent
Yes (writer of letter)

Bishop (435/6)
(after 449)

Photius

Interaction Date	435 - ? (from: --/--/435 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Petra [Petra]
Office	presbyter
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Companion
Yes

presbyter (435 - ?)

Irenaeus

Interaction Date	435 - before 445 (from: --/--/435 to: --/--/445)
Interaction Location	Petra [Petra]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	unknown
Relationship Quality	support

Companion
Yes

(435 - before 445)

Iohannes of Antioch

Interaction Date	435 (from: --/--/435 to: --/--/436)
Interaction Location	Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya]
Office	Bishop
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)	Other Interaction Type
Yes	Yes (orders book-burning)

Bishop (435)

Dalmatius of Constantinople

Interaction Date	431 (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Constantinopolis [Istanbul]
Office	Abbot
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	ascetic
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

Abbot (431)

Shenoute

Interaction Date	before 451 (from: --/--/451 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Panopolis [Akhmim]
Office	Abbot
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	ascetic
Relationship Quality	conflict

Visitor
Yes

Abbot (before 451)

aristocrat from Alexandria sent by the comes

Interaction Date	after 436 (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Receiver of benefaction from exile
Yes (preaching, )

(after 436)

Messenger

Interaction Date	after 436 (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Messenger
Yes

(after 436)

Ioannes

Interaction Date	451 (from: --/--/451 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga]
Office	tribunus (east)
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	support?

Messenger
Yes

tribunus (east) (451)

Marcianus (emperor)

Interaction Date	451 (from: --/--/451 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office	Emperor
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	support

Responsible for return
Yes

Emperor (451)

Chamberlain accompanying Nestorius

Interaction Date	after 436 (from: --/--/436 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	support

Companion
Yes

(after 436)

Orthodox bishops

Interaction Date	after 436 (from: --/--/436 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support, conflict?

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

(after 436)

Theodosius II

Interaction Date	431 (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office	Emperor
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

Emperor (431)

Dorotheus of Marcianopolis

Interaction Date	432-451 (from: --/--/432 to: --/--/451)
Interaction Location	Oasis Magna/Thebaidos [El-Kharga]
Office	Bishop
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Companion
Yes

Bishop (432-451)

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);

Barsauma (male) mid fifth century, died 491 (from: --/--/431 to: --/--/491)
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451 - ? (from: --/--/451 to: --/--/--)

Edessa [Şanlıurfa]

Nisibis [Nusaybin]

S. Gerö, Barsauma of Nisibis and Persian Christianity in the Fifth Century (CSCO 426 Subs. 63), Louvain 1981, 60–72

Thomas the Armenian (male) mid sixth century (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/536)
View Case

536/7 - c. 566? (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/566)

Armenia [Armenia]

Claudias [unknown]

unknown

Ephraim of Amida

Interaction Date	536/7 (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya]
Office	Bishop
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

Bishop (536/7)

Brother of Ephraim of Amida

Interaction Date	536/7 (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Armenia [Armenia]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

(536/7)

Judge in Armenia

Interaction Date	536/7 (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Armenia [Armenia]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

(536/7)

Assembly of clerics in Armenia

Interaction Date	536/7 - ? (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Claudias [unknown]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Companion
Yes

(536/7 - ?)

Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 21 (PO 82:287-92)

Assembly of clerics in Armenia (male) mid sixth century (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/536)
View Case

536/7 - ? (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/--)

Armenia [Armenia]

Claudias [unknown]

unknown

Brother of Ephraim of Amida

Interaction Date	536/7 (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Armenia [Armenia]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

(536/7)

Judge in Armenia

Interaction Date	536/7 (from: --/--/536 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Armenia [Armenia]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

(536/7)

Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 21 (PO 82:287-92)

Samuel (abbot) (male) mid sixth century (from: --/--/539 to: --/--/551)
View Case

539 - 551 (from: --/--/539 to: --/--/551)

Monastery of the Huts in the district of Claudias [unknown]

Ioannes of Ephesus

Interaction Date	between 539 and 551 (from: --/--/539 to: --/--/551)
Interaction Location	Monastery of the Huts in the district of Claudias [unknown]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	unknown
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor	Hagiographer
Yes	Yes

(between 539 and 551)

Ioannes of Ephesus, Vita sanctorum orientalium 58 (PO 19:207-8)

Iohannes of Tella (male) 483 - 538 (from: --/--/483 to: --/--/538)
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521 - 538 (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/538)

Tella [Viranşehir]

Severus of Antioch

Interaction Date	early 520ies (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/525)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Other Interaction Type
Yes (instigator of letter)

(early 520ies)

Monophysite bishops

Interaction Date	early 520ies (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/525)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Other Interaction Type
Yes (joint writer of letter)

(early 520ies)

Monophysite monks

Interaction Date	early 520ies (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/525)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Correspondent
Yes (receiver of letter)

(early 520ies)

Ioannes of Ephesus

Interaction Date	529 (from: --/--/529 to: --/--/525)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor	Hagiographer
Yes	Yes

(529)

'170,000' clerics

Interaction Date	after 522 (from: --/--/522 to: --/--/538)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor	Receiver of benefaction from exile
Yes	Yes (other, ordination)

(after 522)

70 Amidene monks

Interaction Date	529 (from: --/--/529 to: --/--/525)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	ascetic
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor
Yes

(529)

Ephraim of Amida

Interaction Date	538 (from: --/--/538 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya]
Office	Bishop
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Other Interaction Type
Yes (responsible for execution)

Bishop (538)

Twelve bishops from the Antioch area

Interaction Date	after 521 (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	unknown [unknown]
Office	Bishop
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Companion
Yes

Bishop (after 521)

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)

Twelve bishops from the Antioch area (male) early sixth century (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/521)
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521 - ? (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/--)

Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya]

Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 18 (PO 18:513-26)

Amidan monks (male) early sixth century (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/521)
View Case

521 - ? (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/530)

Amida [Diyarbakır]

yes

Ioannes of Ephesus

Interaction Date	after 521 (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/525)
Interaction Location	Monastery of Mar Mama at the village of Hzyn in Tysf' [unknown]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor	Hagiographer
Yes	Yes

(after 521)

crowds from distant lands

Interaction Date	after 521 (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/525)
Interaction Location	Monastery of Mar Mama at the village of Hzyn in Tysf' [unknown]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor	Receiver of benefaction from exile
Yes	Yes (preaching, other, food, miracle healing)

(after 521)

Iustinus

Interaction Date	521 (from: --/--/521 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office	Emperor
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

Emperor (521)

Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus

Interaction Date	c. 530 (from: --/--/530 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office	Emperor
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for return
Yes

Emperor (c. 530)

Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 35 (PO 18:607-23)

Susanna (female) early sixth century (from: --/--/519 to: --/--/519)
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c. 519 - after 534 (from: --/--/519 to: --/--/534)

Palaestina [Palestine]

unknown

Five nuns from Susan's convent

Interaction Date	c. 519 (from: --/--/519 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	desert beyond Alexandria [n/a]
Office	Nun
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	ascetic
Relationship Quality	support

Companion
Yes

Nun (c. 519)

Villagers from Mendis

Interaction Date	after 519 (from: --/--/519 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	desert beyond Alexandria [n/a]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor
Yes

(after 519)

Maro, Samuel and his sister

Interaction Date	after 519 (from: --/--/519 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	desert beyond Alexandria [n/a]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	ascetic
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor
Yes

(after 519)

Ioannes of Ephesus

Interaction Date	534 (from: --/--/534 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	desert beyond Alexandria [n/a]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	cleric
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor	Hagiographer
Yes	Yes

(534)

Iustinus

Interaction Date	519 (from: --/--/519 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	conflict

Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
Yes

(519)

The ill and infirm

Interaction Date	534 (from: --/--/534 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	desert beyond Alexandria [n/a]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor	Receiver of benefaction from exile
Yes	Yes (other, miracle healing)

(534)

Holy man in the desert

Interaction Date	534 (from: --/--/534 to: --/--/--)
Interaction Location	desert beyond Alexandria [n/a]
Office
Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile)	lay
Relationship Quality	support

Visitor
Yes

(534)

Ioannes of Ephesus, Vitae Sanctorum Orientalium 27 (PO 18:541-58)

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