• Pope Dioscorus the Great, Coptic Pope of Alexandria (444—454).
• Pope Dioscorus II, Coptic Pope of Alexandria (516—517).
• Dioscorus
  Theodore, Philippa, and Companions
  Theodore, Philippa, and Companions were martyrs, who suffered crucifixion during the reign of Elagabalus. Theodore of Perge was a Roman soldier, and Philippa was his mother...
  
  , 3rd century martyr and saint
• Dioscurus, father of Saint Barbara
  Saint Barbara
  Saint Barbara, , Feast Day December 4, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian saint and martyr....
  
   (3rd century).
• Dioscorus (consul 442), Roman consul in 442
• Dioscorus
  Antipope Dioscorus
  Dioscorus was a deacon of the Alexandrian and the Roman church from 506. In a disputed election following the death of Pope Felix IV, the majority of electors picked him to be Pope, in spite of Pope Felix's wishes that Boniface succeed him...
  
   (died 530), papal legate to Justinian I
  Justinian I
  Justinian I ; , ; 483– 13 or 14 November 565), commonly known as Justinian the Great, was Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. During his reign, Justinian sought to revive the Empire's greatness and reconquer the lost western half of the classical Roman Empire.One of the most important figures of...
  
   at Constantinople
  Constantinople
  Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
  
  ; later antipope
  Antipope
  An antipope is a person who opposes a legitimately elected or sitting Pope and makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church. At times between the 3rd and mid-15th century, antipopes were typically those supported by a...
  
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• Dioscoros, Byzantine
  Byzantine Empire
  The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...
  
   governor of Egypt
  Egypt
  Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
  
   c. 535.
• Dioscoros, Abuna Dioskoros (Aba Wolde Tensai)
  Abuna Dioskoros (Aba Wolde Tensai)
  Abuna Dioskoros , also called Aba Woldetensae, was the bishop of the dioceses of South West Shewa and Chebona Gurage diocese of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church....
  
   Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop and miracle worker.
• Dioscoros, Abune Dioskoros
  Abune Dioskoros
  Abune Dioskoros is the Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, appointed in April 2007with the unanimous approval of the Holy Synod....
  
   Eritrean Orthodox Bishop of Seraye, and claimed Patriarch of Eritrea (disputed).
• Dioscorus of Aphrodito
  Dioscorus of Aphrodito
  Flavius Dioscorus lived during the 6th century A.D. in the village of Aphrodito, Egypt, and therefore is called by modern scholars Dioscorus of Aphrodito. Although he was an Egyptian, he composed poetry in Greek, the cultural language of the Byzantine Era. His poems are the oldest surviving poems...
  
  , poet and lawyer (died after 585)

See also

• Castor and Polydeuces, known as the Dioscuri in Greek mythology
  Greek mythology
  Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
  
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