council · 335 · Tyre
A decade after Nicaea the anti-Nicene party gathered at Tyre to try Athanasius on charges of violence and sacrilege — a severed hand produced in evidence belonged, he showed, to a man alive and whole. Condemned regardless, he was banished to Trier: the first of five exiles in the long war over Nicaea's creed.
The First Synod of Tyre or the Council of Tyre was a gathering of bishops called together at Tyre by Emperor Constantine I for the primary purpose of evaluating charges brought against Athanasius, the Patriarch of Alexandria, who was deposed by the council.
Charges brought by the Melitians and Arians against Athanasius of Alexandria.
Athanasius condemned on fabricated charges and deposed; his first exile followed — the Arian reaction's opening victory.