John Talaia

John Talaia (flourished 5th century) was a theologian and bishop of Alexandria, Egypt, whose struggle to maintain his episcopal office and preserve the ascendancy of the orthodox party in conjunction with Popes Simplicius (468–483) and Felix III (483–492), against the incursion of Acacius, the heterodox patriarch of Constantinople, occasioned a temporary schism between Eastern and Western churches. A priest and majordomo of the church in Alexandria, John was recommended to the emperor Zeno (474–491) at...