Henotikon

The Henotikon (Eng. " agreement ", from the ancient Greek ἑνότης / he'notɛs /. ) Was a 482 enacted by the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno edict which the theological dispute between the orthodox followers of the decisions of the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451 ) and the Monophysites which were numerous, especially in the Roman Orient provinces, sought to mediate.

The decisions of Chalcedon were not rejected it, but virtually ignored: the definition of the true faith was in Henotikon with recourse to the earlier decisions of the Councils of Nicaea (325 ), Constantine Opel (381) and Ephesus ( 431).

Since the compromise formulas of Henoticon the Monophysites, despite being fairly calm, but could not really satisfying, while also provoked fierce resistance of the Bishop of Rome, failed the imperial approach to unite the kingdom religiously - like all other such attempts during the rest of Late Antiquity also. Instead, led to the adoption of Henoticon only within a short time for so-called akakianischen schism between Rome and Constantinople Opel.

The edict is also in the church history of Evagrius Scholasticus play ( 3:14).