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Chapter XL.—Proclus
succeeds Maximian Bishop of Constantinople.
Maximian, having peacefully
governed the church during two years and five months, died on the 12th
of April, in the consulate of Areobindus and Aspar.1028
This happened to be on the fifth day of the week of fasts which
immediately precedes Easter. The day of the week was Thursday. Then the
Emperor Theodosius wishing to prevent the disturbances in the church
which usually attend the election of a bishop, made a wise provision
for this affair; for in order that there might be no dispute again
about the choice of a bishop and tumult thus arise, without delaying,
before the body of Maximian was interred, he directed the bishops who
were then in the city to place Proclus in the episcopal chair. For he
had received already letters from Cælestinus bishop of Rome
approving of this election, which he had forwarded to Cyril of
Alexandria, John of Antioch, and Rufus of Thessalonica; in which he
assured them that there was no impediment to the translation to another
see, of a person who had been nominated and really was the bishop of
some one church. Proclus, being thus invested with the bishopric,
performed the funeral obsequies of Maximian: but it is now time briefly
to give some account of him also.
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