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Zosimus (Ancient Greek: Ζώσιμος; fl. 490s–510s) was a Greek historian who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I (491–518). [1] According to Photius , he was a comes , and held the office of "advocate" of the imperial treasury . [ 2 ]
Pope Zosimus was the bishop of Rome from 18 March 417 to his death on 26 December 418. [1] He was born in Mesoraca , Calabria . [ 2 ] Zosimus took a decided part in the protracted dispute in Gaul as to the jurisdiction of the See of Arles over that of Vienne , giving energetic decisions in favour of the former, but without settling the controversy.
Zosimos of Panopolis (Greek: Ζώσιμος ὁ Πανοπολίτης; also known by the Latin name Zosimus Alchemista, i.e. "Zosimus the Alchemist") was an alchemist and Gnostic mystic. He was born in Panopolis (present day Akhmim , in the south of Roman Egypt ), and likely flourished ca. 300. [ 2 ]
Zosimus the Bearded (Russian: Зосима Брадатый'; died 1494) was Metropolitan of Moscow and all Rus', the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, from 1490 to 1494. He was the fifth metropolitan in Moscow to be appointed without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as had been the norm.
Zosimas was born in the second half of the fifth century, during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II.He became a monk in a monastery in Palestine at a very young age, gaining a reputation as a great elder and ascetic.
The Roman army at Ticinum mutinied on August 13, 408, killing at least seven senior imperial officers (Zosimus 5.32). John Matthews observed that the following events "have every appearance of a thoroughly co-ordinated coup d'état organized by Stilicho's political opponents". [44] Stilicho retired to Ravenna, where he was taken into captivity.
Zosimus (historian) (c. 490–510) 5th-century Byzantine historian; Pope Zosimus (died 418), born in Mesoraca, Calabria, who reigned from 417 to his death in 418; Zosimos of Samosata, mosaicist at Zeugma; Zosimus, 5th-century hermit who discovered Mary of Egypt in the desert; Zosimus the Epigrammist in Anthologia Graeca
In 1495, he was elected Metropolitan of Moscow after the removal of Zosimus on charges of heresy and sodomy. Simon soon won the respect of Ivan III . In 1501, Simon wrote a letter to the clergy of Perm , asking them to admonish their flock , knyaz , and ruling elite to eradicate idolatry and pagan beliefs among ordinary people.