4 September 454 A.D. Dioscorus Dies—25th Patriarch of Alexandria; Dean of Catechetical School, Alexandria; Opposed Nestorius; Supported Eutyches; Presided over Robber Council, 449
4 September 454 A.D. Dioscorus Dies—25th Patriarch of
Alexandria; Dean of Catechetical School,
Alexandria; Opposed
Nestorius; Supported Eutyches; Presided over Robber Council, 449; Deposed by Council of Chalcedon, 451, But Recognized as Patriarch by Coptic
Church Until Death.
Editors.
“Dioscorus.” Encyclopedia Britannica. N.d. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/164420/Dioscorus. Accessed 16 Dec
2014.
Dioscorus, (born
, Alexandria [Egypt]—died Sept. 4, 454, Gangra, Galatia [now Cankiri, Tur.]), patriarch of Alexandria and Eastern prelate who was deposed
and excommunicated by the Council
of Chalcedon in 451. He was archdeacon at Alexandria when he
succeeded St. Cyril as patriarch in 444.
He
supported Eutyches,
a monk of Constantinople and founder of Eutychianism (an extreme form of Monophysitism),
who was condemned by a synod at Constantinople in 448. The following year
Dioscorus presided over the Robber Synod of Ephesus.
With the support of the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II, he reinstated
Eutyches, excommunicated Pope Leo I the Great for censuring Eutychianism, and
deposed Patriarch St. Flavian of Constantinople for opposing Monophysitism.
After
Theodosius’ death in 450, the Council
of Chalcedon condemned all Monophysite doctrines and deposed
Dioscorus, exiling him to Gangra. He was not, however, cndemned as a heretic.
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