Diodore of Tarsus

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Church Fatherd. c. 390

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Head of the ascetic school at Antioch where John Chrysostom and Theodore of Mopsuestia were formed; bishop of Tarsus from 378 and a leader of the Nicene party at the Council of Constantinople in 381. His literal exegesis shaped the Antiochene school.

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See of Tarsus, 378–c. 390.

Disciples: John Chrysostomc. 347–407
Socrates, Church History VI.3; Sozomen, Church History VIII.2

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