title: Dioscorus
text: # Dioscorus
  
  Dioscorus (also Dioscoros, Dioskoros, or Dioscurus) can refer to:
  
  * Theodore, Philippa, and Companions (including Dioscorus), 3rd-century martyr and saint
  * Dioscurus, father of Saint Barbara (3rd century)
  * Dioscorus (consul 442), Roman consul in 442
  * Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria, Coptic Pope of Alexandria deposed at Chalcedon for his leadership at the Second Council of Ephesus (444–454)
  * Pope Dioscorus II of Alexandria, Coptic Pope of Alexandria (516–517)
  * Antipope Dioscorus (died 530), papal legate to Justinian I at Constantinople; later antipope
  * Dioscoros, Byzantine governor of Egypt c. 535
  * Dioscorus of Aphrodito, poet and lawyer (died after 585)
  * Dioscoros, Abuna Dioskoros (Aba Wolde Tensai) Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop and miracle worker (1919–1997)
  * Dioscoros, Abune Dioskoros Eritrean Orthodox Bishop of Seraye, and claimed Patriarch of Eritrea (disputed) (1935–2015)
  