Dioscorus

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Dioscorus

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Died:: October 14, 530, Rome

Title / Office:: pope (530-530); antipope (530-530)

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Dioscorus (born, Alexandria [Egypt]—died October 14, 530, Rome) was a pope, or antipope, for 23 days in 530. A deacon in the Alexandrian Church, he clashed with the Miaphysites (Christians teaching that Christ has one nature, rather than two—i.e., human and divine) and went to Rome. Under Pope Symmachus he was papal legate at Ravenna to the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great. In 519 Dioscorus led a legation dispatched by Pope Hormisdas to Constantinople, where, with the Byzantine emperor Justin I, they concluded the Pope’s resolution of the Acacian Schism, thereby reuniting the Eastern and Western churches. Hormisdas then unsuccessfully ...(100 of 237 words)

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