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