John of Ephesus

John of Ephesus

▪ Turkish bishop
also called  John of Asia  
born c. 507, near Amida, Mesopotamia
died 586 or 588, Chalcedon, Bithynia, Asia Minor

      Monophysite bishop of Ephesus, who was a foremost early historian and leader of monophysites in Syria.

      A Syrian monk, he became a deacon at Amida in 529, but because of the Byzantine persecution of the Monophysites he was forced to lead a nomadic life. Later, at the Eastern imperial court of Constantinople, John was able to gain the support of the empress Theodora and, through her, the favour of the emperor Justinian (Justinian I). As a result, he was appointed about 542 as a missionary to pagan areas around Ephesus and the mountainous region of central Asia Minor. He succeeded, according to his own estimate, in baptizing more than 70,000 persons and in building numerous churches and monasteries in place of pagan temples that he caused to be destroyed. About 558 he was ordained a bishop of the Monophysite church. Justinian's successor, the emperor Justin II, a supporter of the orthodox cause, imprisoned John and later banished him to Chalcedon.

      John wrote an ecclesiastical history, recording events from the time of Julius Caesar (died 44 BC) to AD 586, in three volumes, of which only the third, treating the period 571–586, survives intact. He also wrote c. 568 a description of the lives of 58 Eastern saints, of signal value as a primary source for Monophysite Christian history.

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