Eudoxius of Antioch

Eudoxius of Antioch ( * ca 300 in Arabissus ( Cappadocia ); † 370 in Constantinople Opel ) was 360-370 Patriarch of Constantinople Opel. Previously, he was bishop of Germanica ( Commagene ) and of Antioch. He was among the most influential radical Arians.

Eudoxius whose training is locates in Antioch, was after 330 Bishop of Germanica ( Commagene ) and at this time or a little later followers of the Arian party bemäßigt of Eusebius of Nicomedia. He participated in the Synod of Antioch (341), part of the Council of Serdica 343 and at the Council of Milan ( 355 ) ( where he delivered a letter from Eusebius of Vercelli). Eudoxius worked in Birmium with at the 2nd sirmischen formula and eventually became 358 as the successor of Bishop Leontius of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch. Following an open favoring the Arian Aetius and Eunomius but was again removed by Constantius II of the Office and sent back to his homeland. At the Synod of Seleucia 359 Eudoxius then took the moderate position of Acacius of Caesarea. After his departure from a radical Arianism Eudoxius was back in the favor of the emperor, and was used on 27 January 360 as bishop of Constantinople Opel.

Eudoxius baptized 366 Emperor Valens and had great influence on its arianerfreundliche policy. How Sozomen reported, in the following years, especially remote anti- Nizänern bishops who wanted to bring petitions on its reinstatement before the emperor, to Eudoxius passed with the proviso to submit to its judgment or to go into exile (Hist. eccl. VI 7.3 to 9 ). Even the Synod of Tarsus, which was to treat a wider support of Rome consensus within the meaning Nizäas, Eudoxius could still be imperial ban ( see ibid VI 10.3 to 12.5 ). The conflicts ranged over the death of Eudoxius 370 as addition, as the imperial method of influence: The under nizänischem influence the successor of Eudoxius consecrated Evagrius of Antioch was banished by Valens, the Nicene party, when she refused, desired by the Emperor Arians demo Philos to choose, sharply pursued.

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• Athanasius. ad Solit. in Patr Gk. xxvi. 572, 219, 589, 274, 580, 713, 601;
• Epiphanius of Salamis de Haeres. lxxiii. 2;
• Hilary, de Synod. , Patr Lat. x. 471, etc.;
• Liber contr. Const. Imp § § 665, 680, 573, etc.
• Theophanes Chronogr. § 38; Niceph. Callist. H. E. xi. 4;