106 George DaU, 



Peter. 'loKivvTys liria-KOTro'i ^odptov ("John, Bishop of Dor") appears 

 among the signers of the decree (directed against Anthimus and 

 other opponents of the Council of Chalcedon), which was promul- 

 gated by the Jerusalem councir. The fact that at the Constanti- 

 nople Council held in the same year (May and June 536), John, 

 Bishop of Zoar, was present^ might seem to indicate that Zoapoiv 

 should be read for Aodptov. But the reading with A is the one here 

 attested'; and it is hardly probable that Dor was without repre- 

 sentation at the Jerusalem Council*. In itself there is nothing 

 improbable in the conclusion that the bishops of Dor and Zoar in 

 the year 536 were both named John. 



STEPHAX. 



On the eighth of October, 649, Stephan, Bishop of Dor, was 

 introduced to the Constantinople Council of that year, over which 

 Pope Martin presided*. From the communication read to this 

 Council by Stephan we learn that this was his third appearance 

 before the Pope at Rome. He had been sent the first time by 

 Sophronius I, Patriarch of Jerusalem (who succeeded Modestus, 

 c. 634") to accuse Sergius of Joppa and other Bishops of monothe- 

 litism. Pope Theodore (as we learn from Stephan's letter just 

 mentioned) appointed Stephan his representative in Palestine to 

 convert to orthodoxy or else to depose the heretic bishops appointed 

 by Sergius\ Some of these bishops recanted and were duly con- 

 firmed in their offices by Pope Martin. 



Stephan is introduced® by a "Theophylactus notarius" to the 

 Constantinople Council of 649 (Secretarius II) as 6 oo-iwTaTos eTria-Ko- 

 TTOS Atopwv TrpwTOs VTrap^oiv rrj^ iv 'IcpocroAv/AOi? upartiajs SiKaioSoo-ta?. 

 '*The most reverend Bishop of Dor, who is first of the church 

 council in Jerusalem." In the introduction and conclusion of the 



» Lequien, HI, p. 579 ; Harduin, II, p. 1418. 



2 Lequien, I. c; Harduin, II, p. 1402. 



3 Although the Latin in Harduin reads '• Posdonus." 



* Cp. the Jerusalem Council in 518 just discussed, at which Barochius of 

 Dor was present. 



5 Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, III, pp. 216 f.; li^ oris, Annus et Epochae^ pp. 

 457 flf.; Lequien, III, pp. 579 f. 



* Lequien, I, c. 



' Hefele, III, pp. 209 f . 



8 Mansi X, pp. 891 f. ; Harduin, III, pp. 709 ff. 



