John of Ephesus (507/586/8): Syrian historian and clergyman, ardent supporter of Monophysitism. In 534 he took shelter to Constantinople, because of the persecutions ordered by the patriarch of Antioch Ephraim, and was found under the patronage of Justinian I. He was sent as bishop to Ephesus, where according to his writings, he proselytized 70,000 heathens. His works are Church History written from a Monophysite point of view and Lives of the Eastern Saints. After Justinian΄s death (565), John was imprisoned and later banished.