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Conflict amongst the Christian population of Neapolis emerged in 451.

By this time, Neapolis was within the Palaestina Prima province under the rule of the Byzantine Empire.

The tension was a result of Monophysite Christian attempts to prevent the return of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Juvenal, to his episcopal see.

However, the conflict did not grow into civil strife.