foundation · 398 · Constantinople
He had been a presbyter at Antioch for twelve years and had preached the sermons that got him his name, and the imperial administration wanted him for Constantinople. Sozomen and Socrates both describe the manner of it: he was got out of the city by a stratagem, on orders, because a riot was expected if the congregation understood what was happening. He did not want the see. What he did with it was refuse to live like a bishop of the capital — he sold the furnishings, ate alone, built hospitals, and preached against wealth in a city organised around it — and within six years a synod under Theophilus of Alexandria had deposed him on charges nobody now defends. This dataset held the synod and not the accession.
To get the best preacher in the East into the capital, quietly, because the people of Antioch would not have let him go.
Six years, a reform programme, a quarrel with the court, and a deposition — which is the event this page already had.