Eutyches
375 CE–454 CE · Constantinople (Istanbul)
Eutyches (c. 375 - c. 454) was an elderly archimandrite (head of a monastery) near Constantinople who, opposing Nestorius, taught an extreme position later called Eutychianism or Monophysitism: that after the Incarnation Christ had only one nature, his humanity absorbed into his divinity. After first being condemned at a local synod in 448, his teaching was definitively rejected at the Council of Chalcedon (451).
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Condemned at a synod of Constantinople (448) and definitively at the Council of Chalcedon (451) for teaching that Christ had a single nature, his humanity absorbed into his divinity.
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Eutyches led a monastery near Constantinople and, opposing Nestorius, pressed the view that Christ had but one nature after the Incarnation; condemned at a local synod in 448 and definitively at Chalcedon in 451, he died in exile.
Constantinople (Istanbul) in this era
Refounded as Constantinople by Emperor Constantine I in 330 CE, this Roman imperial capital hosted the First Council of Constantinople (381), which affirmed Nicene Christianity and elevated the city's bishop to honor second only to Rome.
About Constantinople (Istanbul)
Constantinople, today Istanbul in Turkey, was the Greek colony of Byzantium until Constantine I refounded it as the imperial capital in 330, and for over a millennium it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and a centre of Greek learning and Christian authority: the council of 381, which Gregory of Nazianzus led for a time, affirmed the Nicene Creed and ranked the city's bishop second only to Rome's, and Hagia Sophia rose in 537. Jews are recorded there from the late fourth century. Sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, it fell to the Ottomans in 1453, serving as their capital and a seat of Islamic learning until 1923; after 1492 Sephardi exiles made it a leading Jewish centre.
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