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Severos, patriarch of Antioch, was one of the most important ecclesiastical figures of the first half of the sixth century, a time when the reception, or not, of the Council of Chalcedon (451) was still a matter of much dispute. As an opponent of the Council, Severos had to flee from his patriarchal see to Egypt in 518 when Justin came to the throne and imperial policy changed. Summoned by Justinian to Constantinople in 536, he won over Anthimos, the patriarch of Constantinople, but in the reaction to this unexpected turn of events, both he and Anthimos were anathematised at a synod in the capital and his writings were condemned to be burnt. Regarded as a schismatic by the Greek and Latin Church, he is commemorated as a saint in the Syrian Orthodox Church, and so it is only in Syriac translations from Greek that the majority of his voluminous writings are preserved. The first of the two biographies translated in this volume was written by Zacharias, a fellow law student in Beirut. The purpose of the work was to counter a hostile pamphlet and it happens to shed fascinating light on student life at the time; composed during Severos’ own lifetime, it covers up to his election as patriarch in 512; the second biography comprises Severos’ whole life, and its author, writing only shortly after Severos’ death in 538, was probably a monk of the monastery of Qenneshre, on the Euphrates, a stronghold of Severos’ supporters.

Church history --- Eglise --- Early works to 1800. --- Histoire --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Severus, --- 276 =75 SEVERUS ANTIOCHENUS --- Christianity --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- Griekse patrologie--SEVERUS ANTIOCHENUS --- Zacharias, --- Sévère, --- Severus Sozopolitanus, --- Zaccheria, --- Zacharia, --- Zachariah, --- Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, --- Severus Antiochenus --- Severus, - of Antioch, - ca. 465-538