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Chapter XXXV.—Maximian
elected to the Episcopate of Constantinople, though Some wished Proclus
to take that Place.
After this there was another
debate concerning the election of a bishop of Constantinople. Many were
in favor of Philip, of whom we have already made mention; but a still
greater number advocated the claims of Proclus. And the candidacy of
Proclus would have succeeded, had not some of the most influential
persons interfered, on the ground of its being forbidden by the ecclesiastical canon that a person
nominated to one bishopric should be translated to that of another
city.1016
| 1016The canon referred to is probably the fifteenth of
Nicæa, as follows: ‘On account of the numerous troubles and
divisions which have taken place, it has been thought good
that…no bishop, priest, or deacon should remove from one city to
another. If any one should venture, even after this ordinance of the
holy and great Synod, to act contrary to this present rule, and should
follow the old custom, the translation shall be null, and he shall
return to the church to which he had been ordained bishop or
priest.’ Cf. also Apostol. Can. 14 and 15, and the
twenty-first of the Council of Antioch given by Hefele, Hist. of the
Ch. Councils, Vol. II. p. 72.
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The people believing this assertion, were thereby restrained; and about
four months after the deposition of Nestorius, a man named Maximian was
promoted to the bishopric, who had lived an ascetic life, and was also
ranked as a presbyter. He had acquired a high reputation for sanctity,
on account of having at his own expense constructed sepulchral
depositaries for the reception of the pious after their decease, but
was ‘rude in speech’1017
and inclined to live a quiet life.
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