Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 69.13-23
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Caesarea Maritima is indirectly attested at Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle 69.13-23. This passage was written ca. ca. 810-814 C.E. possibly in Cyzicus. Theophanes, born to noble parents in Constantinople, was raised in the Palace under Constantine V (740-775 C.E.) He spent much of his career as a member and leader of monastic communities around the Sea of Marmara, before his condemnation and exile to Samothrace in 817 C.E. by Leo V the Armenian during the controversies over Iconoclasm. At the request of George Syncellus, Theophanes wrote a continuation of his chronicle from Diocletian down to Michael I Rhangabes (284-813 C.E.), in the usual dry style and format of Byzantine chronography. In his entry for the year 383/4, Theophanes summarized the outcome of the Holy Synod at Constantinople, or the Second Ecumenical Council, which was actually held in 381, including the condemnation of Acacius, the Arian bishop of Caesarea.

ἡ δὲ ἁγία καὶ οἰκουμενικὴ σύνοδος τὸ ὁμοούσιον ἐκύρωσεν, προσέθηκε δὲ τῷ συμβόλῳ καὶ τὴν θεολογίαν τοῦ πνεύματος. ἐξέθετο δὲ καὶ κανόνας, ἐν οἷς τῷ θρόνῳ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως τὰ πρεσβεῖα νέας Ῥώμης ἀπένειμεν. τότε Γρηγόριος ὁ Νύσης καὶ Πελάγιος Λαοδικείας, Εὐλόγιός τε Ἐδέσης καὶ Ἀμφιλόχιος Ἰκονίου ἐν ταύτῃ διέλαμπον σὺν τῷ μεγάλῳ Γρηγορίῳ καὶ τοῖς προρρηθεῖσιν. ἡ δὲ ἁγία σύνοδος Ἄρειόν τε καὶ Εὐσέβιον τὸν Νικομηδείας, Εὐζώϊόν τε καὶ Ἀκάκιον, Θεόγνιν καὶ Εὐφρόνιον καὶ τοὺς λοιποὺς ἀνεθεμάτισεν, πρὸς τούτοις δὲ καὶ Μακεδόνιον τὸν πνευματομάχον, Εὐδόξιόν τε καὶ Ἀέτιον καὶ Εὐνόμιον ἀπεκήρυξεν.

[Ed. de Boor 1883]

[A.M. 5876=383/4 C.E.] The holy ecumenical synod validated the consubstantial and added the doctrine of the Spirit to the creed. It also published canons in which it assigned the privileges of New Rome to the see of Constantinople. Gregory of Nyssa, Pelagius of Laodiceia, Eulogius of Edessa, and Amphilochius of Iconium shown brightly at this synod together with Gregory the Great and those previously mentioned. The holy synod anathematized Arius and Eusebius of Nicomedia, Euzoius and Acacius, Theognis and Euphronius and the others, and in addition to these it condemned Macedonius, the enemy of the Spirit, Eudoxius, Aëtius, and Eunomius.

[Rev. Mango, Scott, and Greatrex 1997]

Works Cited

[...] 69.13-23
[...] 105

[Jacob of Edessa year 225

Michael the Syrian I.322

Socrates Scholasticus 5.9

Sozomen 7.10-11

Theodoret of Cyrrus, Church History 5.8

Theodorus Anagnostes 238, 240, 241, 239 (79.7-19)]

[Constantinople

Edessa

Iconium

Laodiceia

Nicomedia

Nyssa

Rome]

[Acacius of Caesarea

Amphilochius of Iconium

Arius the heretic

Aëtios

Eudoxius

Eulogius of Edessa

Eunomius

Euphronius

Eusebius of Nicomedia

Euzoius of Antioch

Gregory of Nyssa

Gregory the Great

Macedonius

Pelagius of Laodiceia

Theognis]

[Christianity

Government and Law

Society and Culture]