Another Interesting Tidbit from Agapius

I have always been intrigued by the fact that the Alexandrian and Edessan cultures seem to have been intertwined despite their geographic remoteness. I know the standard explanation would be that both cultures were 'Jacobite' but I strongly suspect the connection goes beyond that. Both the Alexandrian and Edessan Christian cultures were Marcionite (where the term simply means 'those of little Mark'). Here is another example from Agapius where we are told that in the middle of the fourth century:

the Arians raised up in Alexandria, in the place of Athanasius, Eusebius of Emesa, originally from Edessa. But the people refused to receive him, because he shared the ideas of Sabellius; and he returned to Emesa. Then the Arian Gregory was put in his place as bishop.

Another example is Severus Al'Ashmunein's inclusion of the Edessan bishop Archelaus (of the Acts of Archelaus) in the history of the Coptic Church ...