Dioscorus
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Dioscorus (also Dioscoros, Dioskoros, or Dioscurus) can refer to:
- Pope Dioscorus the Great, Coptic Pope of Alexandria (444—454).
- Pope Dioscorus II, Coptic Pope of Alexandria (516—517).
- Dioscurus, father of Saint Barbara (3rd century).
- Dioscorus (died 530), papal legate to Justinian I at Constantinople; later antipope.
- Dioscoros, Byzantine governor of Egypt c. 535.
[edit] See also
- Castor and Polydeuces, known as the Dioscuri in Greek mythology.