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- ↑ Patriarchs of Antioch.
- ↑ Eusebius, Hist Ecc.4.20.I.
- ↑ Jerome, Chron, 199.
- ↑ St. Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch, Confessor.
- ↑ [The Rulers of the Church of Antioch].
- ↑ Glanville Downey, History of Antioch (Princeton University Press, 2015) p. 300.
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