Letters — Letter 145

St. Leo the Great

Source: NPNF Series 2, Volume XII (Schaff, 1895) — public domain via CCEL.

1. Chapter 1

To Leo Augustus.

(Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius.) __________________________________________________________________

Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace.

On Marcian's death there had been a rising, in which Proterius had been brutally murdered, and a monk named Timothy Ælurus set up in his stead. __________________________________________________________________