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His first act was to repudiate the Henoticon, a deed of union, supposedly originating with patriarch Acacius of Constantinople and published by the emperor Zeno with the view of allaying the strife between the Monophysites and their opponents in the Orthodox Church. He also addressed a letter of remonstrance to Acacius. The latter proved refractory, and sentence of deposition was passed against Acacius.

In his first synod Felix excommunicated Peter the Fuller, a Monophysite who had assumed the See of AntiochThis is about one of the cities called Antioch in Asia Minor, now Turkey. See Antioch (disambiguation) for other places called Antioch. The city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes (modern Antakya is located in what is now Turkey. It was founded near the end of the against Papal wishes. In 484Events December 28 Alaric II succeeds Euric as king of the Visigoths. Gunthamund becomes king of the Vandals. Pope Felix III excommunicates Peter Mongus, patriarch of Alexandria, and Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, causing a schism between eastern a, Felix also excommunicated Peter Mongus , who had taken the See of Alexandria - an act which brought about a schism between East and West that was not healed until 519Events The Eastern and Western churches are temporarily reconciled with the end of the Acacian schism. Cedric becomes king of Wessex Jacob of Serugh becomes bishop of Bagnan. The synagogues of Ravenna are burnt down in a riot; Theodoric the Great orders t.