[3] After his ascension to the throne, Emperor Justin I ordered bishops within the Diocese of the East to accept the Council of Chalcedon or face deposition.
[4] In November 519,[5] with the aid of the imperial army, the patriarch had Paul, Bishop of Edessa, who had refused to accept the council, forcibly removed from his church, despite the protestations of the local population, and exiled to Seleucia in Syria.
[6] Fearing civil unrest,[6] Emperor Justin I restored Paul to the see of Edessa after forty days.
[3] He ordered non-Chalcedonian monks on the fringe of the Syrian Desert to sign a declaration of acceptance of the Council of Chalcedon, and those who failed to do so were threatened with removal from their monasteries.
[6] The resulting violence led Emperor Justin I to depose Paul in 521, who died shortly afterwards.