Eutyches
presbyter and archimandrite at Constantinople
b. c. 378 · d. c. 454
Eutyches or Eutyches of Constantinople was a presbyter and archimandrite at Constantinople. He first came to notice in 431 at the First Council of Ephesus, for his vehement opposition to the teachings of Nestorius. Eutyches was condemned for having adopted a polar opposite view of Nestorianism, where the two natures of Christ fuse together to form one, single Divine nature, dubbed Monophysitism. This was condemned at the Council of Chalcedon and Third Council of Ephesus. He himself, however, would reject this interpretation of his thought.
Events
Places
- Constantinople birth
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) 2 claims — Eutyches condemned at the Home Synod; Council of Chalcedon
- The First Seven Ecumenical Councils (325–787) 1 claim — Second Council of Ephesus
What he held
- The humanity was absorbed After the union there is one nature, the human having been taken up into the divine so that Christ is not of one substance with us.
In the disputes
- The Eutychian dispute Eutyches, pressed at a synod in his own city in 448, would not say that Christ is of one substance with us.