Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

List of bishops of Byzantium and of disciples of Christ
Περὶ τῶν ἐπισκόπων τοῦ Βυζαντίου
(Peri tōn episkopōn tou Buzantiou, On the bishops of Byzantium)
Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ ἱστορία
(Ekklēsiastikē historia, Ecclesiastical history)
De septuaginta duobus et duodecim Christi discipulis
(De septuaginta duobus et duodecim Christi discipulis, On the 72 and 12 disciplines of Christ)

Author:

Dorotheus of Tyre, Pseudo-

Period covered:

Christ-314

Language:

Greek

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

Dorotheus was supposedly a confessor under Diocletian and a martyr under Julian. The work which pretends to be a translation from the Latin, only surfaces at the end of the eighth century and seeks to prove the precedence of Constantinople over Rome. The work is also attested in Theophanes, Chronicle AM 5816 and 5854, and there exists a medieval Latin version.

Edition - Translation:

T. Schermann (1907) Prophetarum vitae fabulosae, indices apostolorum discplinorumque domini Dorotheo, Epiphanio, Hippolyto aliisque vindicata. Leipzig.
J. Dolbeau (2012) Prophètes, apôtres et disciples dans les traditions d'Occident (Subsidia hagiographica, 92). Brussels.
Patrologia Graeca 92: 1059-1075
H. Leppin (2019) 'La recension longue de l'Index apostolorum discipulorumque Domini du pseudo-Dorothée: contenu - datation - postérité. Avec l'édition de la Passion de S. Dorothée de Tyr (BHG 2114)', Analecta Bollandiana 137: 241-260.

Fragments:

Users:

Theophanes of Byzantium

Sources:

Bibliography:

C. Guignard (2016) 'Greek lists of the Apostles: New findings and open questions'. Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 20: 469-495.