Bishops
Le Quien (Oriens christianus, II, 979) mentions nine bishops of Rhesaena:
- Antiochus, present at the Council of Nicæa (325);
- Eunomius, who (about 420) forced the Persians to raise the siege of the town;
- John, at the Council of Antioch (444);
- Olympius at Chalcedon (451);
- Andrew (about 490);
- Peter, exiled with Sevenian (518);
- Ascholius, his successor, a Monophysite;
- Daniel (550);
- Sebastianus (about 600), a correspondent of Gregory the Great.
The see is again mentioned in the tenth century in a Greek Notitiæ episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Antioch (Vailhé, in "Echos d'Orient", X, 94). Le Quien (ibid., 1329 and 1513) mentions two Jacobite bishops: Scalita, author of a hymn and of homilies, and Theodosius (1035). About a dozen others are known.
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