Chronicle of Edessa

1 In the year 756, Dioscorus was made Bishop of the great Alexandria.

2 Again, another Synod was assembled in Ephesus. In it, Dioscorus dragged into excommunication Flavian the Great of Constantinople; and Domnus of Antioch; and Irenaeus of Tyre; and Ibas of Edessa; and Eusebius of Dorylaeum; and Daniel of Harran; and Sophronius of Tela; and Theodoret of Cyrus.

3 ...the birth-giver of God; and he said that there are two natures in Christ.

4 In the year 759, Ibas, Bishop of Edessa, migrated from the world on the first of the last Kanun December; and Nonnus stood in his stead on the twenty-first of Tammuz July. And he made the monastery of the nomads or 'a two-year monastery'. And he performed service in the church.

In the year 760, Leo was known as the Bishop of Rome.

In the year 761.

N O T E S .

1 Dioscorus. Dionysius in his Chronicle refers the ordination of Dioscorus to the same year, that is, the year of the Greeks 756, the year of Christ 445, whose opinion Bollandus seems to embrace at the day of January 28th, while he calls into doubt whether St. Cyril departed from the living in the year 444 or 445. But Cardinal Norisius, in book 2 of the History of the Pelagians, chapter 12, learnedly proves that Dioscorus succeeded Cyril in the year 444. For Athanasius, in a supplicatory petition recited in Action 3 of the Council of Chalcedon, after he complained about the injuries inflicted upon him by Dioscorus, the successor of Cyril, says thus: All these things were perpetrated against me by the Most Reverend and God-beloved Dioscorus, he circumventing me for eight whole years today. But this petition was recited in the year 451, on the 3rd of the Ides of October, when Action 3 of the Council of Chalcedon was held. Therefore, Dioscorus began his episcopate in the year 444, not 445; otherwise, as Cardinal Norisius says, Athanasius would have counted only the seventh year. Certainly, Dionysius in the Chronicle assigns the death of Saint Cyril to the year of the Greeks 755, which corresponds to the year of Christ 444.

LXII. In the year 756, 1 Dioscorus was made Bishop of the great Alexandria.

LXIII. Also, another 2 Synod was 2 convened at Ephesus, in which Dioscorus struck with anathema the great Flavian, Bishop of Constantinople; Domnus of Antioch; Irenaeus of Tyre; Ibas of Edessa; Eusebius of Dorylaeum; Daniel of Harran; Sophronius of Tela; and Theodoret of Cyrus.

LXIV. In the year 759, 3 Ibas, Bishop of Edessa, passed away on the 1st of January; to whom Nonnus was substituted on the 21st of July, and he held the See for two years, and performed service 3 in the church.

LXV. In the year 760, 4 Leo was known as Bishop of Rome.

LXVI. In the year 766.

2 Another Synod at Ephesus. It was not convened in the year of the Greeks 756, as seems to be gathered from the sequence of the preceding number; nor in the year 757, as Dionysius reports in the Chronicle; but in the year 760, the year of Christ 449, as appears from the Acts of that same pseudo-synod. Therefore, what is narrated about the exile of Ibas in the following number at the year of the Greeks 759 happened in the year 760; for this Ephesine Synod, in which Ibas was condemned, was begun on August 8, in the year of Christ 449. See Pagius at this number XI and XII.

3 Sacrarium Sanctuary. Our author uses the Greek word diakonikon deacon's area/sacristy; which he also does below in these words, "in the second Indiction, a petition, the twelfth milestone," etc. Moreover, the diakonikon is a sacred and venerable place, enclosed by a floor, penetrable only to the clergy, rarely to secular men, and never to women, as Suicerus observes in his Thesaurus from the Euchologion of the Greeks.

4 Leo. Saint Leo was then in the tenth year of his Pontificate. Therefore, what is said in the Syriac Text regarding him is to be understood regarding the fame of his name, not regarding the beginning of his Pontificate.