Timothy Aelurus
Also: Timothy II of Alexandria, Timothy the Cat
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died in 477, in Alexandria, Egypt.
Patriarch of Alexandria for those who did not accept Chalcedon, twice in office and long in exile.
Wrote in Greek.
Places lived
- 457 to 460Alexandria, Egyptbishop
- 460 to 464Gangra (now Çankırı, Turkey)exileyears probable
- 464 to 475Chersonesus (now Sevastopol, Crimea)exileyears probable
- 475 to 477Alexandria, Egyptbishop
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Against the Council of Chalcedon (extracts)His case against Chalcedon, built from passages of earlier fathers; kept in Armenian and Syriac.4,975 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Timothy_II_of_Alexandria
- Place of birth not known
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Timothy_II_of_Alexandria
- Died sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Timothy_II_of_Alexandria : 31 July 477
- Place of death sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Timothy_II_of_Alexandria; Zachariah of Mytilene, Chronicle 5.4; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727070
- Alexandria, years sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Timothy_II_of_Alexandria
- Alexandria, place sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Timothy_II_of_Alexandria; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727070
- Gangra, years probable
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Timothy_II_of_Alexandria : put out of Alexandria in 460 (the page gives no later year); Zachariah of Mytilene, Chronicle 4.9-11
- Gangra, place sure
- Zachariah of Mytilene, Chronicle 4.9; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/844926
- Chersonesus, years probable
- Zachariah of Mytilene, Chronicle 4.11
- Chersonesus, place sure
- Zachariah of Mytilene, Chronicle 4.11; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226564
- Alexandria, years sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Timothy_II_of_Alexandria
- Alexandria, place sure
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Timothy_II_of_Alexandria; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727070