Paulus (bishop of Alexandretta)

Paulus (Bishop of Alexandretta, fl. 518) was a 6th-century Bishop of Alexandria Minor or Alexandretta in modern Turkey.[1]

Paulus was a Monophysite, so a christologic heretic from the Catholic and orthodox point of view.[2] Paulus, was deposed by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian around 518AD.[3][4] along with many other bishops of the area.

References edit

  1. ^ Walter de Gruyter, Biographical Index of the Middle Ages. (Walter de Gruyter, 2008) page 850.
  2. ^ E.W. Brooks, The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, II, 98).
  3. ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 903-906 and page 888.
  4. ^ Siméon Vailhé, v. Alexandria minor ou Alexandrette, in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XII, Paris 1953, coll. 287-289