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]