Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XII/Leo the Great/Letters/Letter 145

by Philip Schaff et al.

Letter CXLV.

To Leo Augustus^[1].

(Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius^[2].)

Footnotes

1. Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace.
2. 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.