Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene

LC control no.	n 79083928
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Zaccheria, Scolastico Zacharia, Scholastikos Zachariah, of Mitylene Zacharias, Rhetor, Bp. of Mitylene. Zacharias, Scholastikos
See also	Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, active 6th century *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Found in	Dialogo di Zaccheria Scolastico, vescovo di Mitilene, intorno alla fabbrica del mondo, contra quei filosofi che la eternità gli attribuiscono, 1735. The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, 2011: p. 3 (Zacharias, Bishop of Mytilene, also known as Zacharias Rhetor or Zacharias Scholasticus; church historian; b. in Maiuma, the harbor city of Gaza, in the late 460's; was active in Alexandria and Constantinople; attended a synod in Constantinople in 536, where he is described as Bishop of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos; not attested after 536; died before 553, when a new bishop of Mytilene attended the Second Council of Constantinople; was later confused with Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor, who wrote a chronicle in Syriac that drew heavily on Zacharia's own Historia ecclesiastica)