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English from Mango Scott (1997)

from Mango Scott (1997:65)

[AM 5840, AD 347/8]

Constantius, 12th year
Sabores, 46th year
Liberius, 3rd year
Eusebios, 3rd year
Cyril, 8th year
Athanasios, 19th year
Phlakitos, 5th year

ln this year most of the city of Berytos in Phoenicia collapsed during a severe earthquake. As a result, many pagans entered the Church professing to be Christians just like us. Thereupon some of them introduced an innovation and went forth after robbing, as it were, the Church of her usages. They appointed a place of prayer and received the throng into it, imitating all the customs of the Church and becoming very close to us (just as the heresy of the Samaritans [is close] to the Jews), while still living in the pagan fashion.||^a

Footnotes

a [Hypoth. Arian] 23.

Year	Reference	Corrections	Notes
25 Mar. 347 to 24 Mar. 348 CE	A.M._a 5840	none	Calculated with CHRONOS 1 September 347 CE to 31 August 348 CE is also possible Mango, C. and R. Scott (1997) date A.M._a 5840 from 1 September 347 CE to 31 August 348 CE. no correction required - not within the time span (A.M._a 6102-6206 or 6218-6265) when Theophanes' A.M._a are frequently a year too low.
9 Sept. 348 to 8 Sept. 349 CE	Constantius, 12th year		Calculated with CHRONOS Constantius II started ruling on 9 Sept. 337 CE
1 Jan. 354 to 30 Dec. 355 CE	Sabores, 46th year		Calculated with CHRONOS Sabores (aka Shapur II) was crowned King in utero. Thus by some accounts, his reign started at his birth in 309 CE. He reached maturity at age 16.
17 May 354 to 20 June 355 CE	Liberius, 3rd year		Calculated with CHRONOS Liberius became the Pope of Rome on 17 May, 22 May or 21 June 352 CE
	Eusebios, Bishop of Constantinople, 3rd year
end of 357 to end of 358 CE	Cyril, 8th year		Calculated with CHRONOS Cyril became the Bishop of Jerusalem around the end of 350 CE.
8 June 346 to 7 June 347 CE	Athanasios, 19th year		Calculated with CHRONOS Athanasios became the Pope of Alexandria around 8 June 328. His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years (c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373), of which over 17 encompassed five exiles, when he was replaced on the order of four different Roman emperors.
1 Jan. 337 to 30 Dec. 339 CE	Phlakitos, 5th year		Calculated with CHRONOS The accession of Phlakitos (aka Flacillus) as the Bishop of Antioch is placed in 333 or 334 CE.

Year

Reference

Corrections

Notes

25 Mar. 347 to 24 Mar. 348 CE

A.M._a 5840

none

Calculated with CHRONOS
1 September 347 CE to 31 August 348 CE is also possible
Mango, C. and R. Scott (1997) date A.M._a 5840 from 1 September 347 CE to 31 August 348 CE.
no correction required - not within the time span (A.M._a 6102-6206 or 6218-6265) when Theophanes' A.M._a are frequently a year too low.

9 Sept. 348 to 8 Sept. 349 CE

Constantius, 12th year

Calculated with CHRONOS
Constantius II started ruling on 9 Sept. 337 CE

1 Jan. 354 to 30 Dec. 355 CE

Sabores, 46th year

Calculated with CHRONOS
Sabores (aka Shapur II) was crowned King in utero. Thus by some accounts, his reign started at his birth in 309 CE. He reached maturity at age 16.

17 May 354 to 20 June 355 CE

Liberius, 3rd year

Calculated with CHRONOS
Liberius became the Pope of Rome on 17 May, 22 May or 21 June 352 CE

Eusebios, Bishop of Constantinople, 3rd year

end of 357 to end of 358 CE

Cyril, 8th year

Calculated with CHRONOS
Cyril became the Bishop of Jerusalem around the end of 350 CE.

8 June 346 to 7 June 347 CE

Athanasios, 19th year

Calculated with CHRONOS
Athanasios became the Pope of Alexandria around 8 June 328. His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years (c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373), of which over 17 encompassed five exiles, when he was replaced on the order of four different Roman emperors.

1 Jan. 337 to 30 Dec. 339 CE

Phlakitos, 5th year

Calculated with CHRONOS
The accession of Phlakitos (aka Flacillus) as the Bishop of Antioch is placed in 333 or 334 CE.

Chronicle of Theophanes