Eudoxius of Antioch

Eudoxius of Antioch (* approx. 300 in Arabissus ( Cappadocia ), † 370 in Constantinople ) was Archbishop of Constantinople from 360 to 370 . Before that he was Bishop of Germanica ( Kommagene ) and Antioch . He was one of the influential " homoic " bishops.

Eudoxius, presumably educated in Antioch , became after 330 Bishop of Germanica ( Commagene ) in Armenia , a little later also a follower of a theological tendency dominating in the east of the Roman Empire following Origen , the so-called 'Origenist middle group', to which also Eusebius of Nicomedia can be counted. He took part in the Synod of Antioch (341), the Council of Serdica in 343 and the Council of Milan (355) (where he brought a letter from Eusebius of Vercelli ). In Sirmium, Eudoxius worked on the 2nd Sirmian formula and finally succeeded Bishop Leontios of Antioch in 358. After the supposed 'New Arians' Aëtios of Antioch and Eunomius supported him in the first months of 358, Eudoxius was deposed as Bishop of Antioch by Emperor Constantius II after protests and sent back to his Armenian homeland. A short time later he was apparently able to return and appeared again during the Synod of Seleucia (359), where he then signed the "homeic" declaration of Acacius of Caesarea , in accordance with the ecclesiastical position of Constantius II January 360 appointed as Bishop of Constantinople.

Eudoxius baptized Emperor Valens in 366 and probably influenced his church policy, which brought the homeic creed of 360 from the time of Constantius II back to isolation. According to Sozomenos , in the years that followed, bishops who were deposed by opponents of the Nicene Confession and wanted to bring petitions to the emperor for their reinstatement were passed on to Eudoxius with the stipulation that they submit to his judgment or go into exile. Even the Synod of Tarsus, which was supposed to deal with a broader consensus supported by Rome in the sense of Nicaea , had Eudoxius still had an imperial ban. The conflicts extended beyond the death of Eudoxius 370, as did the imperial process of exerting influence: Euagrios , consecrated under Nicene influence as the successor of Eudoxius, was banished by Valens, the Nicene party, when they refused, the "Homoe" Demophilos desired by the emperor to choose, closely pursued.

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• Athanasius , ad Solit. in Patr. Gk. xxvi. 572, 219, 589, 274, 580, 713, 601
• Epiphanius from Salamis de Haeres. lxxiii. 2
• HE ii. 16, 38, 40 etc.
• Hilarius , de Synod. , Patr. Lat. x. 471 etc.
• Liber contr. Const. Imp. §§ 665, 680, 573 etc.
• Sozomenos , HE iv. 26th
• Socrates Scholasticus , HE ii. 19, 37, 40, 43
• Theodoret , HE ii. 25; Haer. Fab. iv. 3
• Theophanes , Chronogr. § 38; Niceph. Callist. HE xi. 4th

Remarks

1. ^ Hanns Christof Brennecke , Annette von Stockhausen, Christian Müller, Uta Heil, Angelika Wintjes (eds.): Athanasius works. Third volume, first part. Documents on the history of the Arian dispute. 4th delivery: Up to the Synod of Alexandria 362 . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin / Bosten 2014, p. 384ff.
2. ^ Hanns Christof Brennecke, Annette von Stockhausen, Christian Müller, Uta Heil, Angelika Wintjes (eds.): Athanasius works. Third volume, first part. Documents on the history of the Arian dispute. 4th delivery: Up to the Synod of Alexandria 362 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Bosten 2014, p. 497.
3. ↑ Sozomenos , hist. Eccl. VI 7.3-9
4. ↑ cf. Sozomenos, hist. Eccl. VI 10.3-12.5

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Eudoxius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1550–1551.

predecessor	Office	successor
Macedonius I.	Patriarch of Constantinople 360–370	Demophilus
Leontios	Bishop of Antioch 350–358	Annias