A.D. 449. NATORIS was present at the Council of Ephesus, A.D. 431, and was consecrated _c._ A.D. 449. At the Council of Ephesus he supported Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, who was accused of irregularities of ecclesiastical practice.
Timotheus, during the reign of Anastasius I, A.D. 430-513.
A.D. 490. ENOS (ÆNAS), who had been a Platonic philosopher, and convert to Christianity, testifies to certain persons speaking after the loss of their tongues (See Robertson's _Church History_, p. 459, _note_).
A.D. 518. KYRILLUS, who condemned Severus of Antioch.
A.D. 540. MARCIANUS (reign of Justinius, A.D. 483-565).
He built two churches in the city, the church of St. Sergius, and that of St. Stephen, whose beauty is praised by Chorikius of Gaza.
A.D. 540. AURELIANUS, a successor, perhaps, of Marcianus.
A.D. 553. The Bishops of Gaza and Mayoumas Gazæ each signed synodical letters inserted in the Acts of the Second Council of Constantinople.[23]
II.--BISHOPS OF MAYOUMAS (OR CONSTANTIA)[24]
_c_. A.D. 400. ZENO, brother of Aias, the Bishop of Botolion (Bethulia), and personally known to the historian Sozimus.
A.D. 431. PAULINUS, mentioned in the Minutes of the Council of Ephesus.
A.D. 449. PAULUS, the supporter of Dioscorus in the Robber Council of Ephesus, A.D. 449.
A.D. 505. PETER, the Iberian, Bishop of Gaza and Mayoumas. An Eutychian, appointed by the Alexandrian faction.
During this Episcopate, Severus, the Monophysite Patriarch of Antioch, had been expelled from a convent lying between Gaza and Mayoumas as an heretical blasphemer. Coming to the Emperor Anastasius Dicorus, who was infected with the same heresy, he was appointed a noble, and by the use of flatteries, and false accusations, he advanced so far that by the command of Dicorus he banished the Patriarch of Antioch, Flavian II, from the throne, sent him into exile to Petra, and ascended the throne by violence. He excited a great tumult in Antioch.[25]
A.D. 516. PROCOPIUS. His signature appears in the Letter of John of Jerusalem.
A.D. 700-760. ST. COSMAS, Hymnologist, surnamed Μελωδός. He acquired the appellation of Hagiopolites, on account of his proficiency in polite literature. Having been captured by the Saracens, he was carried to Damascus, and had the honour to be preceptor of St. John Damascene, his foster-brother.