Isidorus of Cyrrhus was a bishop of Cyrrhus, a Roman city in what is today Syria.[1][2] Cyrrhus was at the time a diocese about forty miles square and embracing 800 parishes.
Very little is known of his life, although he was an attendee at the First Council of Constantinople in 381. Isidorus of Cyrrhus was succeeded by the noted theologian Theodoret of Cyrrhus who may have been consecrated a bishop for the purpose of succeeding Isidorus.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ Raymond Janin, v. Cyrrhus in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIII, Paris 1956, coll. 1186-1187.
- ^ Michel Lequien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 929-934.
- ^ Ian George Tompkins , PROBLEMS OF DATING AND PERTINENCE IN SOME LETTERS OF THEODORET OF CYRRHUS, Byzantion Vol. 65, No. 1 (1995), pp.176-195.
- ^ Episcopate at Cyrus at www.sacred-texts.com.