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- ↑ Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, (Paris, 1740), Tomo II, coll. 629-630.
- ↑ Raymond Janin, v. Dysthis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques, vol. XIV, (Paris, 1960), col. 1252.
- ↑ Entry at www.gcatholic.org.
- ↑ David Cheney, Diocese of Dysti, at Catholic-Hierarchy.org.