Diodore of Tarsus

He led an ascetic school (avskhth,rion) outside Ant, where among his disciples he counted the young Xost and ThMop. In 378 he became bishop of Tarsus, he was a leading figure in CP 381, opposed Arians and Apollinarism. +394. In the next century CyAlex attacked him as the source of Nestorianism, condemned in a local council in CP 499 and by implication in 553. In his time, however, he was regarded as a great exegete and teacher of orthodoxy. Prolific writer, we only have fragments. In his exegesis he avoided allegory and is said to have written a treatise on the difference between theoria (as he termed the deeper meaning of Scripture, based on its historical sense) and allegory.