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Born c.507 • Diyarbakır • Turkey
Died 586 or 588 • Chalcedon • Turkey
Subjects Of Study history of early Christianity • monophysite
Tatian
Syrian biblical writer
Philoxenus of Mabbug
Syrian bishop
Anthony Of Tagrit
Syrian theologian and writer
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Syrian bishop
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
archbishop of Constantinople
Theodoret Of Cyrrhus
Syrian theologian
Theodore Of Mopsuestia
Syrian theologian
Severian Of Gabala
theologian
Saint Ephraem Syrus
Christian theologian
Eusebius of Nicomedia
bishop
Saint Frumentius
Ethiopian bishop
Simeon Stylites, Saint
St. Simeon Stylites
Christian monk
Aëtius
Syrian bishop
Rabbula
bishop of Edessa
Aphraates
Syrian ascetic
John bar Qursos
Syrian bishop
Saint Eusebius of Samosata
bishop and martyr
Apollinaris The Younger
Christian bishop
St. Anicetus
St. Anicetus
pope
Theophilus of Antioch
Syrian saint

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