Diadochus of Photice
400 CE–486 CE · Photike (Epirus Vetus)
Diadochus was a fifth-century bishop of Photike in Epirus Vetus (modern northwest Greece), a Chalcedonian theologian and one of the most formative spiritual writers of the patristic era. He attended the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and signed the bishops of Epirus' response to Emperor Leo I's encyclical in 457, aligning himself firmly with orthodox Christology against Monophysitism. His principal work, the One Hundred Chapters on Spiritual Perfection, synthesized Evagrian contemplative theology with the developing practice of the unceasing invocation of the name of Jesus, making him a crucial bridge between the Desert Fathers and the later Philokalic and hesychast traditions. He is the earliest major witness to the Jesus Prayer as a sustained spiritual method, and his influence on Maximus the Confessor, John Climacus, and Gregory Palamas was profound. According to Bishop Victor of Vita's Historia persecutionis Africanae Provinciae, Diadochus was carried off in a Vandal raid on Epirus between 467 and 474 and taken to North Africa, where he presumably died before 486.
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Diadochus served as bishop of Photike, a city in Epirus Vetus (near modern Paramythia in the Souli municipality of Thesprotia), writing all his major works there and representing the province at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
About Photike (Epirus Vetus)
Photike (Photice), a city of Epirus Vetus in northwestern Greece. Diadochus was its 5th-century bishop and the author of influential ascetic chapters On Spiritual Knowledge.
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- Shenoute of Atripe· 348 CE–466 CE
- Eutyches· 375 CE–454 CE
- Cyril of Alexandria· 376 CE–444 CE
- Maximus of Turin· 380 CE–465 CE
- Socrates Scholasticus· 380 CE–439 CE
- Nestorius· 386 CE–451 CE
- Prosper of Aquitaine· 390 CE–463 CE
- Narsai· 399 CE–502 CE
- Salvian of Marseille· 400 CE–480 CE
- Pope Leo the Great· 400 CE–461 CE
- Sozomen· 400 CE–450 CE
- Peter Chrysologus· 400 CE–450 CE
- Faustus of Riez· 405 CE–490 CE
- Philoxenus of Mabbug· 440 CE–523 CE
- Jacob of Sarug· 451 CE–521 CE
- Pope St. Simplicius· –483 CE
- Pope St. Hilarius· –468 CE
- Pope St. Felix III· –492 CE
- Pope St. Gelasius I· –496 CE
- Isaac of Antioch· –460 CE
- Pope Anastasius II· –498 CE
- Vincent of Lérins· –445 CE
- Pope St. Symmachus· –514 CE
- Pope St. Sixtus III· –440 CE
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- Leo I the Thracian· 401 CE–474 CE
- Attila the Hun· 406 CE–453 CE
- Zeno· 425 CE–491 CE
- Siyaj Chan K'awiil II (Stormy Sky)· –456 CE
- Bahram V· 400 CE–438 CE
- Anastasius I· 431 CE–518 CE
- Justin I· 450 CE–527 CE
- Gwanggaeto the Great· 374 CE–412 CE
- Yazdegerd I· –420 CE
- Kavad I· 473 CE–531 CE
- Yax Nuun Ahiin I (Curl Nose)· –404 CE
- Bumin Qaghan· –552 CE
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