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at Ephesus. He was signatory to the acts of Ephesus that were overturned at Chalcedon. At Chalcedon he was one of the thirteen Egyptian bishops (out of twenty) who presented a petition defending their orthodoxy to the emperors
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still considered it one of the most fertile places in Egypt with a pleasant climate. The city was ultimately abandoned, the inhabitants even moving their dead to Tinnis, which itself was abandoned in 1192.
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are known by name down to the end of the eleventh century, according to the 18th-century historian
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Letters from the East: Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th–13th centuries
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By 458 the bishop of Tanis was a certain Paul. A further eight bishops of the
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The Expansion of Christianity: A Gazetteer of its First Three Centuries
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recorded that Tanis was a diocese in the metropolitan province of
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Coptic Civilization: Two Thousand Years of Christianity in Egypt
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Samuel Moawad, "Coptic Historiography", in Gawdat Gabra (ed.),
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of 451, the attending bishop of Tanis was Apollonius. A
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Tanis declined in importance relative to its seaport of
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named Eudaemon. He is mentioned in letters of Bishop
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Oriens Christianus in quatuor patriarchatus digestus
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Index

Bishop of Tinnis
Christian
ancient Egyptian
Tanis
titular bishopric
Roman Catholic Church
Middle Ages

Latin
martyrologies
Menologion of Basil II
Tinnis
Arab conquest of Egypt
Islamic geographers
suffragan
Pelusium
Augustamnica Prima
James of Vitry
Fifth Crusade
Damietta
Council of Nicaea
Melitian
Melitius of Lycopolis
Athanasius of Alexandria
Council of Ephesus
Council of Chalcedon
Miaphysite
Eutyches
Eusebius of Dorylaeum
Flavian of Constantinople

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