Dioscorus of Alexandria
Also: Dioscorus I, Dioscorus the Great
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died in 454, in Gangra (now Çankırı, Turkey).
Patriarch of Alexandria after Cyril, put out of office by the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 444 to 451Alexandria, Egyptbishop
- 451 to 454Gangra (now Çankırı, Turkey)exile
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Letter to Shenoute about an Origenist MonkAn order to the abbot Shenoute to keep the unfrocked priest Helias out of the Thebaid.1,406 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Dioscorus_I_of_Alexandria
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Dioscorus_I_of_Alexandria
- Died sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Dioscorus_I_of_Alexandria : September 454
- Place of death sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Dioscorus_I_of_Alexandria ; Evagrius, Church History 2.5; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/844926
- Alexandria, years sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Dioscorus_I_of_Alexandria : patriarch from 444
- Alexandria, place sure
- Acts of Chalcedon; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727070
- Gangra, years sure
- Acts of Chalcedon; Evagrius, Church History 2.5
- Gangra, place sure
- Evagrius, Church History 2.5; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/844926