- Antiochene Conventicle.
- Interception of Council’s letters.
- Arrival of Roman delegates.
- Unanimous condemnation of Nestorius.
- Council’s letter to Constantinople.
- Examination of Antiochene verdict.
- Ephesian Council’s Creed.
- Treachery of Ireneaus.
- Kyrillian letters to Constantinople.
- Dalmatius, the Solitary, meets the
Emperor. - Imperial invitation to the two parties.
- Ordination of Maximianus Bishop of
Constantinople. - Letter of Xystus on Kyrillos.
- Persistent antagonism of John of
Antioch. - Towards reconciliation.
- Joy of reconciliation.
- Continued Kyrillian striving.
- Death of Kyrillos and his assessment.
A. 238. In the year 412, when the death of Abba
Theophilus left the Chair of St. Mark vacant, the man who
succeeded him was one who achieved high rank in Church
history, and upon whom were conferred descriptive titles
of honour such as “the Daring Lion”, “the Burnished
Lamp”, “the Great”, and more specifically “the Pillar of
the Faith”.
He was deemed worthy of these titles because of the
forcefulness of his character, his exceeding zeal for
Orthodoxy, and his prolific writings in its defence and its
exposition. This man was Kyrillos the First, the twenty-
fourth Pope of the Church of Alexandria. The English