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A recent investigation of the ecclesiastical organization at lower Danube during the 4th-7th centuries has revealed that a Notitia episcopatuum was drawn up under Patriarch Epiphanius of Constantinople (520-535), in the first decade of Justinian I’s reign (527-565). The aim of the present investigation is to identify the provinces that the metropolitan sees of Sebasteia (in the civil Armenia Prima, then Armenia Secunda) and Melitene (in the civil Armenia Secunda, then Armenia Tertia) were assigned to in that old (...

During the 5th century C.E., two important changes occurred in the Church of the Eastern Roman province of Scythia Minor (today’s Dobruja, in Romania and Bulgaria): on the one hand, the original soteriological thought of the local Church was replaced by Augustine of Hippo’s (d.430), on the other hand, Latin replaced Greek in theological education. The present investigation focuses on the context that allowed these important changes. For this task, there has especially been examined the historical information regar...