 In the following months, 17 bishops who supported Nestorius's doctrine were removed from their sees.Eventually, John I of Antioch was obliged to abandon Nestorius, in March 433.On August 3, 435, Theodosius II issued an imperial edict that exiled Nestorius from the monastery in Antioch in which he had been staying to a monastery in the Great Oasis of Hibis (al-Khargah), in Egypt, securely within the diocese of Cyril.