4. ANTIOCHENUS and SCHOLASTICUS, from his native place Antioch, and the profession of advocate, which he once exercised there (ἀπὸ σχολαστικῶν).
At a later period of his life he entered into holy orders, and was ordained priest. He was then named Apocrisiarius, agent or chargé d'affaires of the church of Antioch at the imperial court in Constantinople towards the end of the reign of Justinian. In A. D. 565 he was elevated to the vacant patriarchate of Constantinople, and he died on the 31st of August, A. D. 578, in the 12th year of the reign of Justin the younger. (Theophanes, Chronographia, p. 203, fol. Par. 1655, Assemani, Bibl. Jur. Orient. vol. iii. p. 340-343.)