Person
Dioscorus of Alexandria
bishop 444, deposed 451
Bishop of Alexandria
Attested. The two councils' opposite verdicts are both documented.
Dioscorus succeeded Cyril and presided at Ephesus II, restoring Eutyches and silencing Leo's letter. Chalcedon deposed him for contempt and violence more than for a written heresy of his own. Egyptian and Syrian churches that rejected Chalcedon remembered him as a defender of Cyril.
Places
Councils
- Ephesus II (449)
- Chalcedon (451)
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Catalog editions
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