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  • 507

    John of Ephesus was born at Ingila near Amida.

    Brooks 1923, iv; Witakowski 1996, xxvi.
  • 510

    John was given to the monastery of Marā the Stylite at Ar‘ā Rabtā at the age of 3 or 4.

    Brooks 1923, iv.
  • Period: 521 to 526

    The monks of Urtaya were resident then at the deserted monastery of Mamas at Hazim until 526 [Chapter 35], with archimandrite Sergius [Chapter 58, d. 523, p. 83, n.]

  • 522

    After the death of Marā the Stylite, John (15) moved to the monastery of John Urtaya at Amida.

    Brooks 1923, iv.
  • 530

    Justinian allowed the monks to return to Amida [Chapter 35; the Chronicle of Zachariah Rhetor, viii.5].

    Brooks 1923, iv.
  • 532

    John accompanied Thomas and Stephen to Antioch [Brooks 1923, 207].

    Brooks 1923, iv.
  • 534

    John visited Egypt [Brooks 1923, 209, 211]

    Brooks 1923, iv.
  • 535

    John visited Constantinople [Brooks 1923, 209, 211]

    Brooks 1923, iv.
  • 536

    Descent of Ephraim of Antioch to the East [Chapters 35, 58]

    Brooks 1923, iv.
  • 537

    John’s first work a history of the persecution.

    Brooks 1923, vi.
  • 540

    John, maybe following Abba, moved to Constantinople (2nd visit)

    Brooks 1923, v; Harvey 1990, 29.
  • Period: 540 to 542

    John living at the patrician Probus’ house “for two years (540-542) [Brooks 1923, 157]

  • 541

    Plague in Palestine

  • 541

    Plague in Constantinople

  • Period: 541 to 543

    John traveled from Constantinople to Alexandria, Palestine, Syria, Cyzicus, back to CP

    John traveled to Alexandria (2nd visit), in Autumn went to Palestine and then went to Mesopotamia, and thence to Constantinople (3rd visit), met John of Hephaestopolis performing ordinations in Asia Minor [Chapter 25]. < Brooks 1923, v.
  • 542

    James/Jacob and Theodore were appointed for ordinations [Chapter 50].

    Brooks 1923, v.
  • 542

    John of Ephesus was selected by the emperor for the task of converting the pagans in Asia Minor on the condition that he should convert them to the Chalcedonian faith [Michael, 287; ROC II, 482].

    Brooks 1923, v
  • 542

    Mare the Solitary died at Sycae, Callinicus cubicularius gave Mare’s monastery to John.

    Callinicus giving the villa HE ii.41]. < Brooks 1923, vi.
  • 543

    Cyzicus earthquake: John of Ephesus passed through Cyzicus very short time after the earthquake.

    Witakowski 1996, 73, s.a. 854, (AD 542/3), n. 342; JMC 18.93.
  • 544

    John’s account of the plague

    Brooks 1923, vi; original lost but largely preserved through John’s Ecclesiastical History, Part II, in Ps.-Dionysius’ Chronicle, Part III and in Michael the Syrian’s History < Witakowski 1996, 74-98.
  • 565

    John of Ephesus started writing the Lives of the Eastern Saints.

    John of Ephesus started writing the Lives of the Eastern Saints. < van Ginkel 1995, 87.
  • 565

    Death of Theodosius of Alexandria at Constantinople, John became the head of the miaphysites at Constantinople.

    Brooks 1923, v.
  • 566

    First writing of the Lives by John.

    Brooks 1923, vii.
  • 567

    Second writing of the Lives by John.

    Brooks 1923, vii.
  • 571

    Edict of Justin II, Beginning of the persecution and of the coverage of the EH, Part III.

    Cameron 1976, 64; Evagrius Scholasticus, Eccl. Hist., V.4, Whitby 2000, 257, n. 9. < JE, EHIII, I.3. terminus ante quem for John of Ephesus’ completion of Ecclesiastical History Part II.
  • 575

    terminus ante quem for John’s Defense of the Union of 571 to the Eastern Synod [HE, ii.6].

    Brooks 1923, vi.

  • John was ordained deacon by John of Tella [Chapter 24] at Callinicum

    Brooks 1923, iv; Brooks 1924, 515, n. 3; Menze 2008a, 176; Witakowski 1996, xxvi.

  • The monks including John come to Claudias on the Euphrates under abbot Abba [Chapter 58]

    Brooks 1923, v.

  • John of Ephesus was ordained bishop of Jacob Baradaeus.

    Brooks 1923, v; Possibly this year John of Ephesus was ordained titular bishop of Ephesus by Jacob Burd‘aya (Jacob/James Baradaeus). < Harvey 1990, 29, n. 6 (p. 161): John of Ephesus, Lives, 50, PO 19: 153-158; Witakowski 1996, xxvii.

  • Third (last) writing of the Lives by John.

    Brooks 1923, vii.

  • CP: Patriarch Eutychius confiscated the villa at Sycae which John of Ephesus was using as his headquarters since sometime between 542-546.

    Brooks 1923, vi.

  • End of John of Ephesus’ Ecclesiastical History, Part III.

    Brooks 1923, v.

  • last dateable event in JE, EHIII; van Ginkel’s date for John of Ephesus’ death.

    < van Ginkel 2005, 43, citing P. Allen, “A New Date for the Last Recorded Events in John of Ephesus, ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’”, Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica 10 (1979), 251-254. < van Ginkel 2005, 37.

  • Harvey’s date for John of Ephesus’ death.

    Harvey 1990, 21, 30.

  • MS of Lives of the Eastern Saints British Museum Add. 14647 (A)

    Brooks 1923, vii.

  • MS of Lives of the Eastern Saints British Museum Add. 14651 palimpsest (E)

    Brooks 1923, vii.

  • MS of Lives of the Eastern Saints British Museum Add. 14650 (B)

    Brooks 1923, vii.