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| On the Deposition of Macedonius, Eudoxius obtains the Bishopric of Constantinople.
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Chapter XLII.—On the
Deposition of Macedonius, Eudoxius obtains the Bishopric of
Constantinople.
Acacius, Eudoxius, and those at
Constantinople who took part with them, became exceedingly anxious that
they also on their side might depose some of the opposite party. Now it
should be observed that neither of the factions were influenced by
religious considerations in making depositions, but by other motives:
for although they did not agree respecting the faith, yet the ground of
their reciprocal depositions was not error in doctrine. The Acacian
party therefore availing themselves of the emperor’s indignation
against others, and especially against Macedonius, which he was
cherishing and anxious to vent, in the first place deposed Macedonius,
both on account of his having occasioned so much slaughter, and also
because he had admitted to communion a deacon who had been found guilty
of fornication.438
| 438Cf. Apost. Canon, XXV.
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They then depose Eleusius bishop of Cyzicus, for having baptized, and
afterwards invested with the diaconate, a priest of Hercules at Tyre
named Heraclius, who was known to have practiced magic arts.439
| 439Cf. Tertull. de Idol. IX.: Post evangelium
nusquam invenies aut sophistas, aut Chaldæos, aut Incantatores,
aut Conjectores, aut magos, nisi plane punitos. See also Bingham,
Eccl. Antiq. XVI. 5.
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A like sentence was pronounced against Basil, or Basilas,—as he
was also called,—who had been constituted bishop of Ancyra
instead of Marcellus: the causes assigned for this condemnation were,
that he had unjustly imprisoned a certain individual, loaded him with
chains, and put him to the torture; that he had traduced some persons;
and that he had disturbed the churches of Africa by his epistles.
Dracontius was also deposed, because he had left the Galatian church
for that of Pergamos. Moreover they deposed, on various pretenses,
Neonas bishop of Seleucia, the city in which the Synod had been
convened, Sophronius of Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonia, Elpidius of
Satala, in Macedonia, and Cyril of Jerusalem, and others for various
reasons.
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