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| The Arians ordain Demophilus after the Death of Eudoxius at Constantinople; but the Orthodox Party constitute Evagrius his Successor.
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Chapter XIV.—The
Arians ordain Demophilus after the Death of Eudoxius at Constantinople;
but the Orthodox Party constitute Evagrius his Successor.
The Emperor Valens leaving
Constantinople again set out towards Antioch; but on his arrival at
Nicomedia, a city of Bithynia, his progress was arrested by the
following circumstances. Eudoxius the bishop of the Arian church who
has been in possession of the seat of the Constantinopolitan church for
nineteen608
| 608Epiphanius Scholasticus reads δεκαένα for δεκαεννέα ;
if he be followed, the incumbency of the bishopric of Constantinople by
Eudoxius lasted seven years.
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years, died soon after the emperor’s departure from that city, in
the third consulate609
of Valentinian and Valens. The Arians therefore appointed Demophilus to
succeed him; but the Homoousians considering that an opportunity was
afforded them, elected a certain Evagrius, a person who maintained
their own principles; and Eustathius, who had been bishop of Antioch,
formally ordained him. He had been recalled from exile by Jovian, and
had at this time privately come to Constantinople, for the purpose of
confirming the adherents to the doctrine of the homoousion.
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