Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 41.30-32
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Caesarea Maritima is indirectly attested at Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 41.30-32. This passage was written ca. ca. 810-814 C.E. possibly in Cyzicus. Theophanes, born to noble parents in Constantinople, was raised in the Palace under Constantine V (740-775 C.E.) He spent much of his career as a member and leader of monastic communities around the Sea of Marmara, before his condemnation and exile to Samothrace in 817 C.E. by Leo V the Armenian during the controversies over Iconoclasm. At the request of George Syncellus, Theophanes wrote a continuation of his chronicle from Diocletian down to Michael I Rhangabes (284-813 C.E.), in the usual dry style and format of Byzantine chronography. In his entry for the year 354/5 C.E., he cites the installation of Cyril in the see of Jerusalem with the support of Arians.

Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Μάξιμον τὸν Ἱεροσολύμων καθεῖλεν Ἀκάκιος ὁ Καισαρείας καὶ Πατρόφιλος ὁ Σκυθοπόλεως Ἀρειανοὶ ὄντες, καὶ ἀντεισήγαγον Κύριλλον δοκοῦντες ἔχειν αὐτὸν ὁμόφρονα.

[Ed. de Boor 1883]

In this year Acacius of Caesarea and Patrophilos of Scythopolis, being Arians, deposed Maximus of Jerusalem and replaced him with Cyril, whom they believed to be of their persuasion.

[Rev. Mango, Scott, and Greatrex 1997]

Works Cited

[...] 41.30-32
[...] 70

[Socrates Scholasticus, Church History 2.38

Theodorus Anagnostes 100 (47.27-28)

[Arian Hypothesis] 25a]

[Jerusalem

Scythopolis]

[Acacius of Caesarea

Arians

Cyril of Jerusalem

Maximus of Jerusalem

Patrophilos of Scythopolis]

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