Paulus (bishop of Alexandretta) explained

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

  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