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https://spear-prosop.org/3085-23
Date: Sometime between 0513 and 0518Event Factoid: Sometime during his episcopacy Severus of Antioch wrote a letter to the clergy of Antaradus regarding a difficult set of circumstance surrounding their efforts to have a bishop ordained for their city and the case of Leontius, a deacon who had been disciplined because of his sin but was unrepentant and indeed sought to become head deacon.

Sources:

  • 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 I: Letters I.1-II.3, vol. 2.1 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1903), p: 126-29.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to cite:

Daniel L. Schwartz, https://spear-prosop.org/3085-23, in The Letters of Severus of Antioch: A SPEAR Prosopography, edited by Daniel L. Schwartz, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, 2025-07-01.

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