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In 445 he summoned a synod of Syrian bishops which confirmed the deposition of Athanasius of Perrha . In 447 he consecrated Irenaeus to the see of Tyre (Theodoret, Epistle 110); but emperor Theodosius II, commanded that the appointment should be annulled on the grounds that Irenaeus was both a digamus and a supporter of Nestorianism. He defended Ibas, bishop of Edessa, against charges of promulgating Nestorian doctrines, and summoned a council at Antioch ( 448) which decided in favor of Ibas and deposed his accusers. Domnus's sentence, though revoked by Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, was confirmed by three episcopal commissioners to whom he and the emperor Theodosius had committed the matter. As a result, he was deposed at the Robber Council of Ephesus on August 8August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. Events 1585 John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the North West Passage. 1588 Battle of Gravelines ends Defeated by the English duri, 449Events August 3 The Second Council of Ephesus opens, chaired by Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria. Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople, and Domnus II, Patriarch of Antioch, are deposed on August 8. October, a Roman synod repudiates all the decisions of. Cowed by the authoritarian spirit of DioscorusDioscorus (died c. 454), was patriarch of Alexandria ( 444 451), receiving consecration, according to one report (Mansi, vii. 603), from two bishops only. It is difficult to harmonize the accounts of his character. Theodoret, whose testimony in his favor, and unnerved by the violence of Barsumas and his monks, Domnus revoked his former condemnation of Eutyches, and voted for the condemnation of FlavianThe Flavian dynasty was a series of three Roman Emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian who ruled from 69, the " Year of the Four Emperors", to 96. Flavian was later the name of several bishops of Constantinople and Antioch: Flavian I of Antioch Flavian I, but in vain. He was the only bishop then deposed and banished who was not reinstated after the Council of ChalcedonThe Council of Chalcedon was an ecumenical council that took place from October 8- November 1, 451 A. D at Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor. It is the fourth of the first seven Ecumenical Councils in Christianity, and is therefore recognized as. At that council Maximus IIMaximus II patriarch of Antioch. After the deposition of Domnus II, patriarch of Antioch, by the Robber Council of Ephesus, AD 449, Dioscorus persuaded the emperor Theodosius II to fill the vacancy with one of the clergy of Constantinople. Maximus was sel, his successor in the see of Antioch, obtained permission to assign Domnus a pension from the revenues of the church, and on his recall from exile Domnus returned to the monastic home of his youth, ending his days in the Laura of St. Euthymius, where in 452Events Attila, king of the Huns, invades Italy Northern Wei Tai Wu Di is succeeded by Northern Wei Nan An Wang, then by Northern Wei Wen Cheng Di as ruler of the Northern Wei Dynasty in China. The city of Venice is founded by fugitives from Attila the Hun, according to TheophanesTheophanes (died 817 or 818) was a Byzantine monk and chronicler. He was born in the 750s of iconodule aristocratic parents, but was orphaned at an early age, and the emperor Constantine V saw to his education and upbringing. His chronicle preserves a vib, he afforded a refuge to Juvenal of Jerusalem when he was driven from his see (Theophanes, p. 92).

This article uses text from A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies by Henry Wace.