Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria

Dioscorus I. ( Latinized also Dioscorus or Dioscorus, † September 4 454 in Gangra in Paphlagonia ) was 444-451 Patriarch of Alexandria.

Dioscorus studied in Alexandria and stayed a long time with the Egyptian monks on. He was the nephew and Archdeacon of Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria, whom he accompanied to the Council of Ephesus in 431. Dioscorus was known in the Christological controversy of his time as a defender of the teachings of Eutyches. At the Synod at Ephesus in the year 449 he was Flavian, Archbishop of Constantinople Opel settle, and condemn. This enabled him to enforce his own, Monophysitism related ideas better. The Council of Chalcedon in 451 sat Dioscorus, however, at the instigation of Leo the Great and the Emperor Marcian and rejected from the results of the synod. Its stability in the conflict wore Dioskoros a great veneration in Egypt, although his private life was not always blameless.