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Petrus II, Bishop of Pachoras


XI Century
According to the Polish historians of Nubia, Peter II returned the Nubian Church to miaphysitism after half a century in the Eastern Orthodox communion. There is a two-year gap in the Pachoras bishop list before his consecration, which took place in the same year (1058) as a visit to Nubia by the Coptic Pope Christodulus. One assumes that he took the name "Peter" in honour of Peter I, the last bishop before the dyophysites took over.

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