Letter CXLV.to Leo Augustus1 .

Letter CXLV.to Leo Augustus¹ .

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Letter CXLV.to Leo Augustus¹ .

(Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius² .)

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 Aelurus set up in his stead.