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| Cyril succeeds Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria.
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Chapter VII.—Cyril
succeeds Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria.
Shortly afterwards Theophilus
bishop of Alexandria having fallen into a lethargic state, died on the
15th of October,921
| 921412 a.d. This chapter is
out of chronological sequence, as appears from the fact that Alaric
took Rome in 410 a.d. See chap. 10 below.
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in the ninth consulate of Honorius, and the fifth of Theodosius. A
great contest immediately arose about the appointment of a successor,
some seeking to place Timothy the archdeacon in the episcopal chair;
and others desiring Cyril, who was a nephew of Theophilus. A tumult
having arisen on this account among the people, Abundantius, the
commander of the troops in Egypt, took sides with Timothy. [Yet the
partisans of Cyril triumphed.]922
| 922The words included in brackets are not found in the
Greek; they were probably inserted into the English translation as
necessary to explain the context.
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Whereupon on the third day after the death of Theophilus, Cyril came
into possession of the episcopate, with greater power than Theophilus
had ever exercised. For from that time the bishopric of Alexandria went
beyond the limits of its sacerdotal functions, and assumed the
administration of secular matters.923
Cyril immediately therefore shut up the churches of the Novatians at
Alexandria, and took possession of all their consecrated vessels and
ornaments; and then stripped their bishop Theopemptus of all that he
had.
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