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heresy of Eutyches, and steadily refused to acknowledge the councils that were held against it.[1] On the death of the chief of the Ethiopian bishops, another had been immediately appointed in his place by the Melchites, or those who professed the same faith as the emperor; but by the united interest of Theodora, of the Coptic Jacobites of Egypt, and of Baradæus, the bishop who had been appointed by the Chalcedonians was detained at the court of one of the independent chiefs,[2] through whose dominions
- ↑ In the modern Ethiopian liturgy, they offer up their prayers in the name of Christ, of the virgin, of the apostles, of the saints, et patrum nostrorum principum episcoporum trecentorum decem et octo qui fuerunt Niceæ, et centum quinquaginta qui fuerunt Constantinopoli, et ducentorum qui fuerunt Ephesi. (Missa Æthiopum, in Bibl. Magn. Patrum. Par. 1654, tom. vi. col. 54.); thus acknowledging the synod at Ephesus, and discarding that of Chalcedon and those which followed. Again at p. 45: Et per os trecentorum et decem et octo episcoporum qui pro recta fide in synodo Nicena congregati fuerunt, et centum quinquaginta in Constantinopolitana, et ducentorum in synodo Ephesina, et per os pontificis nostri Saviros, Joannis Chrysostomi oris aurei, Cyrilli, Basilii, Theophili, Athanasii, Gregorii, &c.
- ↑ Barhebræus calls him governor of the Thebaid. The Arabian writer de fide Syr. Jacobitarum says he was king of the Suachini. Philostratus says that Apollonius came to a district on the borders between Egypt and Ethiopia, which was called Sycaminum, which may be the same. επι τα Αιθιοπων τε και Αιγυπτιων ορια, Συκαμινον δε αυτα ονομαζουσι. Vit. Apol. Tyan. lib. vi. c. 2. On which Olearius observes, Ἱεραν Συκαμινον post Thebarum νομον et Elethyiam in Ægypto memorat Ptolemæus.
