Dioscorus
Patriarch of Alexandria|?-454 AD|Alexandria
Dioscorus was Patriarch of Alexandria (444-451), succeeding Cyril and inheriting his fiercely anti-Nestorian theology, which he pushed toward what opponents condemned as Monophysitism. He presided over the Second Council of Ephesus in 449 - branded the "Robber Council" (Latrocinium) by Pope Leo the Great - where he engineered the rehabilitation of Eutyches and the deposition of bishops including Theodoret of Cyrrhus, refusing even to allow Leo's doctrinal letter (the Tome) to be read. At the Council of Chalcedon in 451 the tables turned: Dioscorus was deposed and exiled to Gangra in Paphlagonia, where he died in 454, yet he remained a revered saint to the Coptic and other Oriental Orthodox churches that rejected Chalcedon. His appearance in the correspondence of Leo, Theodoret, and the Augustinian-era milieu reflects his central, polarizing role in the Christological crises that permanently split Eastern Christianity.
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→augustine hippo #117←augustine hippo #118←theodoret cyrrhus #83←leo great #9
To Augustine of Hippoc. 405 AD
Source. Translated by J.G. Cunningham.
From Augustine of Hippoc. 405 AD
1. You have sent suddenly upon me a countless multitude of questions, by which you must have purposed to blockade me on every side, or rather bury me completely, even if you were under the impression that I was otherwise unoccupied and at leisure; for how could I, even though wholly at leisure, furnish the solution of so many questions to one in...
From Theodoret of Cyrrhusc. 440 AD
Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus, to Dioscorus, Archbishop of Alexandria.
From Pope Leo the Greatc. 441 AD
Leo, the bishop, to Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria, greeting. I. The churches of Rome and Alexandria should be at one in everything.