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He almost at once openly united himself with the Acephali, repudiating his own baptism and his baptizer, and even the Christian church itself as infected with Nestorianism ( Labbe, u. s .).

Upon embracing Non-Chalcedonian doctrines, he entered a monastery apparently belonging to that sect between Gaza and its port Majuma.

Here he met Peter the Iberian, who had been ordained bishop of Gaza by Theodosius, the Non-Chalcedonian monk, during his usurpation of the patriarch of Jerusalem.

About this time Severus apparently joined a Non-Chalcedonian brotherhood near Eleutheropolis under the archimandrite Mamas.

At this time Severus rejected the Henotikon of Zeno, dismissing it as " the annulling edict ," and " the disuniting edict " ( Labbe, v. 121 ), and anathematized Peter Mongus, the Non-Chalcedonian patriarch of Alexandria, for accepting it.

We next hear of him in an Egyptian monastery, whose abbot Nephalius having been formerly a Non-Chalcedonian, now embraced the council of Chalcedon.

In the resulting disagreement, Nephalius with his monks expelled Severus and his partisans.