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Gaian - ܓܐܝܐܢܘܣ

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Bishop of Alexandria opposed by Severus of Antioch2

Names

  • ܓܐܝܐܢܘܣ1
  • ܓܐܝܢܐ1
  • Gaian
  • Gaianus

Floruit

mid 6th century

Floruit

535

Sex

male2, 7

Notes

Bishop of Alexandria opposed by Severus of Antioch2
“Gaianus was an Egyptian cleric and follower of the doctrine of Julian of Halicarnassus concerning the incorruptibility of Christ (Aphthartism). He was supported by a considerable part of the population of Alexandria after the death of Timothy IV in early 535; the new patriarch Theodosius was ousted and Gaianus acceded to the patriarchal throne for three months before a military expedition reinstalled Theodosius. Gaianus was sent into exile to the west, probably to Carthage.”6
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  • 1 Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Text, Part II: Letters III.1-XI.1, vol. 1.2 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1904), p: 469.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part II: Letters III.1-XI.1, vol. 2.2 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1904), p: 415.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part II: Letters III.1-XI.1, vol. 2.2 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1904), p: 415.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part II: Letters III.1-XI.1, vol. 2.2 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1904), p: 415.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Ernest Walter Brooks,Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 201; 203; 205, chapter: 3.4.15; 3.4.17; 3.4.18.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Phil Booth,Towards the Coptic Church: The Making of the Severan Episcopate,Millennium 14, no. 1 (2017): 151–90, p: 154.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Ernest Walter Brooks,Iohannis Ephesini Historiae Ecclesiasticae Pars Tertia, 2 vols., CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935), p: 201; 203; 205.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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