Where the bishops who signed came from: the seven ecumenical councils (1,553 names), the three councils at Constantinople that the churches count differently, and three councils after the schism, down to the Orthodox synod of 1590. 2,858 names in all, each mapped at his see.
Pick a council to see the sees of its bishops; the dot grows with the number of names from a see. Hover or tap a dot for its name; select it to see who came from there. Drag to pan, and zoom with the buttons or by double-clicking.
Thirteen lists in three parts, each in the order of its dates. Every list has a map card and the full list of names on one to three further cards.
The share of the names in each list by the present-day country of the see. The seven councils drew almost entirely on the East; Lateran IV almost entirely on Italy and the rest of Europe.
Every name in the thirteen lists, in the order of the source. A bishop who came to several councils appears in each list. Select a row for the notes on it.
| No. | Name | Role | See | As written | Province | Country today | Placement |
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All 47 cards in full size: the overview of the seven councils, then each council's map and lists.
Each map follows one list from the acts of the council: the signatures to its decree or canons where they survive, the attendance and signature lists at Ephesus, the bishops present at the first session in 879, and the list of participants at Lateran IV. Emperors, officials, abbots and envoys are left out; presbyters and deacons who signed for a bishop are kept.
A bishop signed for his see, and only a handful of birthplaces are recorded, so each name is mapped at the see it stood for. A bishop who came to several councils appears once in each list, so the totals count names, not people.
Sees are identified from the editions and their indexes, and placed with the Pleiades gazetteer, the Barrington Atlas and, for the Latin West, GeoNames. A see named in the source and located is drawn as a dot; one identified or located only by modern scholars is starred in the lists; a see that cannot be located is placed in its province with a dashed ring; a see that cannot be identified is listed but not mapped.
The country is that of the site today, from Natural Earth. Crimea is counted with Ukraine. The Golan Heights are counted separately. The regions in the chart group these countries: Turkey; Greece and Cyprus; the Balkans, the Black Sea and the Caucasus; the Levant and Iraq; Egypt and North Africa; Italy; the rest of Europe.
Every name with its see, the form in the source, province, present-day country, coordinates, placement and notes: as a table, as JSON, or as a spreadsheet with the counts per council and per country.