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He was born Theodore, around 213, into a wealthy pagan family in Neocaesarea in Pontus, on the Black Sea coast of what is now Turkey. His father died when he was fourteen. He…

Pamphilus was born wealthy at Berytus — modern Beirut — and could have had the public career his family expected. He studied at Alexandria under Pierius, who was called the…

Severus was born about 465 at Sozopolis in Pisidia, in Asia Minor, into a wealthy family; his grandfather had been a bishop. He was sent to Alexandria to study grammar and…

Romanos was born about 490 at Emesa in Syria — the city now called Homs. Byzantine sources say his family was Jewish, and that he was baptized as a boy. He served as a deacon…

Diadochos was bishop of Photike, a town in Epirus in northwestern Greece, in the middle of the fifth century. One firm date anchors him: in 457 he signed the letter that the…