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Amphilochius, bishop of Side in Pamphylia, who was present at the council of Ephesus, in which Nestorius was condemned, A. D. 421, and who was probably the author of some homilies that go under the name of Amphilochius of Iconium. (Phot. Cod. 52, Cod. 230; Labbeus, de Script Eccl. vol. i.)
St. Eustathius. Bishop of Antioch, b. at Side in Pamphylia, c. 270; d. in exile at
Trajanopolis in Thrace, most probably in 360, according to some already in 336
or 337. He was at first Bishop of Beroea in Syria, whence he was transferred to
Antioch c. 323. At the Council of Nicaea (325), he was one of the most prominent
opponents of Arianism and from 325-330 he was engaged in an almost continuous
literary warfare against the Arians. By his fearless denunciation of Arianism
and his refusal to engage any Arian priests in his diocese, he incurred the hatred
of the Arians, who, headed by Eusebius of Caesarea and his namesake of Nicomedia,
held a synod at Antioch (331) at which Eustathius was accused, by suborned witnesses,
of Sabellianism, incontinency, cruelty, and other crimes. He was deposed by the
synod and banished to Trajanopolis in Thrace by order of the Emperor Constantine,
who gave credence to the scandalous tales spread about Eustathius. The people
of Antioch, who loved and revered their holy and learned patriarch, became indignant
at the injustice done to him and were ready to take up arms in his defence. But
Eustathius kept them in check, exhorted them to remain true to the orthodox faith
and humbly left for his place of exile, accompanied by a large body of his clergy.
The adherents of Eustathius at Antioch formed a separate community by the name
of Eustathians and refused to acknowledge the bishops set over them by the Arians.
When, after the death of Eustathius, St. Meletius became Bishop of Antioch in
360 by the united vote of the Arians and the orthodox, the Eustathians would not
recognize him, even after his election was approved by the Synod of Alexandria
in 362. Their intransigent attitude gave rise to two factions among the orthodox,
the so-called Meletian Schism, which lasted till the second decade of the fifth
century (Cavallera, Le schisme d'Antioche, Paris, 1905).
Most of the numerous dogmatic and exegetical treatises of Eustathius
have been lost. His principal extant work is "De Engastrimytho", in which he maintains
against Origen that the apparition of Samuel (I Kings, xxviii) was not a reality
but a mere phantasm called up in the brain of Saul by the witch of Endor. In the
same work he severely criticizes Origen for his allegorical interpretation of
the Bible. A new edition of it, together with the respective homily of Origen,
was made by A. Jahn in Gebhardt and Harnack's "Texte und Untersuchungen zur Gesch.
der altchristl. Literatur" (Leipzig, 1886), II, fasc. iv. Cavallera recently discovered
a Christological homily: "S. Eustathii ep. Antioch. in Lazarum, Mariam et Martham
homilia christologica", which he edited together with a commentary on the literary
fragments of Eustathius (Paris, 1905). Fragments of lost writings are found in
Migne (P. G., XVIII, 675-698), Pitra and Martin (Analecta Sacra, II, Proleg.,
37-40; IV, 210-213 and 441-443). "Commentarius in Hexaemeron" (Migne, P. G.,XVIII,
707-794) and "Allocution ad Imp. Constantinum in Conc. Nicaeno" (Migne, P. G.,
XVIII, 673-676) are spurious. His feast is celebrated in the Latin Church on 16
July, in the Greek on 21 Feb. His relics were brought to Antioch.
Michael Ott, ed.
Transcribed by: WGKofron
This text is cited July 2004 from The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent online edition URL below.
Eustathius (Eustathios.) Bishop of Antioch, was a native of Side, a town in Pamphylia,
but according to Nicetas Choniates (v. 9), he was descended from a family of Philippi
in Macedonia. He was a contemporary of the emperor Constantine the Great, and
was at first bishop of Beroea in Syria, but the council of Nicaea appointed him
bishop of Antioch (Nicet. Chon. v. 6). At the opening of the council of Nicaea
he is said to have been the first who addressed the emperor in a panegyric (Theodoret,
i. 7). Eustathius was a zealous defender of the Catholic faith, and a bitter enemy
of the Arians, who therefore did everything to deprive him of his position and
influence. A synod of Arian prelates was convened at Antioch, at which such heavy,
though unfounded, charges were brought against him, that he was deposed, and the
emperor sent him into exile to Trajanopolis in Thrace, in A. D. 329 or 330 (Socrat.
i. 24; Sozomen, ii. 19; Theodoret, i. 21; Philostorg. ii. 7). A long time after,
his innocence and the calumnies of his enemies became known through a woman who
had been bribed to bear false witness against him, and who, on her death-bed,
confessed her crime; but it was too late, for Eustathius had already died in his
exile. He is praised by the ecclesiastical writers as one of the worthiest and
holiest men (Athanas. Ep. ad Solit; Sozomen. ii. 19).
Eustathius was the author of several works, but among those which
now bear his name, there are two which can scarcely have been his productions,
viz., the address which he is said to have delivered to the emperor (onstantine
at the council of Nicaea, and which is printed with a Latin version in Fabric.
Bibl. Gr. , and secondly, a commentary, or upomnema, on the Hexaemeron, which
was edited, with a Latin translation and copious notes, by Leo Allatius, Lugdun.
1629. This work is not mentioned by any ancient writer, and the only authority
for ascribing it to Eustathius, is the MS. used by Allatius, in which it bears
his name. But the work itself also contains proofs that it cannot have been written
by Eustathius. A work against Origen, entitled Kata Origenous diagnostikos eis
to engastromuthou theorema, on the other hand, is mentioned by Hieronymus (de
Script. illustr. 85; comp. Socrat. vi 13), and is undoubtedly genuine. It is printed
at the end of Allatius's edition of the commentary on the Hexaemeron. Eustathius
wrote further Homilies, Epistles, and an Interpretation of the Psalms, of which
some fragments are still extant. They are collected in Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Dec 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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