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Initially, the imperial government ordered both Nestorius and Cyril to be deposed and exiled. Nestorius was made to return to his monastery at Antioch, and Maximian was consecrated Archbishop of Constantinople in his place. Cyril was eventually allowed to return after bribing various courtiers.
Eventually, Emperor Theodosius II, who had supported Nestorius, bowed to the influence of his sister Pulcheria to issue an imperial edict (August 3, 435) that condemned all his writings to be burned, and exiled Nestorius to a monastery in the Great Oasis of Hibis (al-Khargah), in Egypt, securely within the diocese of Cyril.
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NESTORIUS. Patriarch of Constantinople and heresiarch; b. Germanicia in Euphratesian Syria, after a.d. 381; d. Libya, after 451. Of Persian parenthood, Nestorius studied in Antioch and entered the monastery of Euprepios, where he was ordained.
Nestorius (c.386 – c.451) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to 22 June 431. He received his clerical training as a pupil of Theodore of Mopsuestia in Antioch and gained a reputation for his sermons that led to his enthronement by Theodosius II as Patriarch following the death of Sisinius I in 428 A.D.
A Syriac tradition describes Nestorius as being of Persian origin, perhaps to connect him with the later Nestorians of the Persian Empire. He became a monk and dwelt in the monastery of Euprepius, near Antioch, where he acquired fame for his eloquent preaching and was appointed bishop, through the influence of Emperor Theodosius II , on 10 ...
Sep 15, 2020 · Nestorianism was for many centuries the name of the tradition of the Christian “Church of the East”—a communion that included the great majority of Christians living in Asia east of the fifth-century-c. e. boundary in western Syria that separated the Persian empire on the east side of the boundary from the Byzantine Roman empire on the ...
The most important consequence of the council was its pivotal contribution to the first schism of our Lord’s body, effectively alienating Persian (Assyrian) Christians who venerate Archbishop Nestorius.
