other · 449 · Antioch
He was bishop of Cyrrhus, a small and poor see he ran conscientiously, and a friend of Nestorius — which is why he was condemned at the Second Council of Ephesus in 449, restored at Chalcedon in 451 only after anathematising Nestorius in person, and condemned again a century later in the Three Chapters. The history is a partisan book by a man who knew he was losing, and it is valuable for exactly the reason partisan books sometimes are: he quotes letters and synodical documents the other historians pass over. This project vendors him as npnf2-03 and cites theodoret-he throughout — for Ambrose's election, for the Nisibis siege, for Gregory of Nazianzus at the Anastasia — and his page held one council and a modern chip.
To carry the story from Arius to 429, from the losing side of the argument that was about to cost him his see.
Five books preserving documents the other two omit, finished about the year its author was deposed.