Separating from his superior, Metropolitan Acacius of Caesarea, a partisan of Arius who taught that Jesus was a divine being created by — and therefore inferior to — God the Father, St. Cyril took the side of the Eusebians of the post-Nicene conciliation party and thus got into difficulties with his superior that were increased by Acacius's jealousy of the importance assigned to St. Cyril's See by the Council of Nicaea.

His successor at the see of Caesarea, Acacius, wrote a Life of Eusebius, but this work has been lost.

* Acacius of Caesarea, bishop and Christian leader of Arianism

He then travelled to Jerusalem, where Cyril of Jerusalem faced opposition from local clergy due to the fact that he had been ordained by Acacius of Caesarea, an Arian heretic.

* Acacius succeeds Eusebius as bishop in the see of Caesarea.

* Acacius the grammarian from Caesarea.

He first appears ( c. 357 ) as a supporter of Acacius, bishop of Caesarea, the leader of that party in the episcopate which supported the Homoean formula by which the emperor Constantius II sought for a compromise between the Homoiousian and the Homoousian.

The sect owed its name and political importance to Acacius, Bishop of Caesarea, oi peri Akakion, whose theory of adherence to scriptural phraseology it adopted and endeavoured to summarize in its various catch words: homoios, homoios kata panta, k. t. l.

In the East, the Anomoeans turned almost as a matter of course to Acacius of Caesarea, whose influence was growing stronger at court and who was felt to be a shrewd temporizer.

Acacius of Caesarea in Greek Ἀκάκιος Mονόφθαλμος ( died 366 ) was a Christian bishop, the pupil and successor in the Palestinian see of Caesarea of Eusebius AD 340, whose life he wrote.

According to Eunapius, Acacius was born in Caesarea Palaestina at " about the same time as Libanius ".

de: Acacius von Caesarea

: PG 77: Cyril of Alexandria, Theodotus of Ancyra, Paul Bishop of Emesa, Acacius of Beroea, John of Antioch, Memnon Bishop of Ephesus, Acacius Bishop of Melitene, Rabbulas Bishop of Edessa, Firmus bishop of Caesarea, Amphilochius of Sida

* Agathius, also known as Acacius of Byzantium ( d. 303 ), Centurion of the Imperial Army.

* Acacius of Beroea ( d. 437 ), Syrian bishop

* Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople ( d. 489 ), Eastern Orthodox, active in the monophysitism controversy

* Acacius ( Nestorian Patriarch ) ( d. 496 ), Patriarch of the Church of the East

The two settled their differences under the mediation of the Bishop of Beroea, Acacius, on April 12, 433.

The conciliatory Council of Seleucia, at which St. Cyril was present, deposed Acacius the following year.

The person who caught Cyril was Acacius who insisted Cyril report the sale to the Synod.

Acacius, once a great ally of Cyril, began to harbor feelings of aggression towards him because Cyril never became a religious ally in the fight for Arianism.

Anastasius II was pontiff during the time of the schism of Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople.

Anastasius II had entered in communion with a supporter of Acacius, bringing condemnation from some of the clergy of Rome, who denounced Anastasius II.

In the fourth century AD, the Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire — who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country.

* Pope Felix III excommunicates Acacius of Constantinople and Peter III of Alexandria, for their role in having Zeno issue his Edict of Union ( Henotikon ) 2 years ago.

* November 16 – Pope Anastasius II dies after a 2-year reign in which he has tried to conciliate followers of Acacius, late patriarch of Constantinople, who was excommunicated by Felix III.

* Acacius becomes patriarch of Constantinople and succeeds Gennadius I.

Gelasius ' election on 1 March 492 was a gesture for continuity: Gelasius inherited Felix's struggles with Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I and the patriarch of Constantinople and exacerbated them by insisting on the removal of the name of the late Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople, from the diptychs, in spite of every ecumenical gesture by the current, otherwise quite orthodox patriarch Euphemius ( q. v.

His first act was to repudiate the Henoticon, a deed of union originating with Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople and published by Emperor Zeno with the view of allaying the strife between the Miaphysite Christians and Chalcedonian Christians.

He also addressed a letter of remonstrance to Acacius.

The latter proved refractory and sentence of deposition was passed against Acacius.

His papacy was dominated by the Acacian schism, started in 484 by Acacius of Constantinople's efforts to placate the Monophysites.

J. Barmby, Hormisdas made several demands: ( 1 ) The emperor should publicly announce his acceptance of the council of Chalcedon and the letters of Pope Leo ; ( 2 ) the Eastern bishops should make a similar public declaration, and in addition anathematize Nestorius, Eutyches, Dioscorus, Aelurus, Peter Mongus, Peter the Fuller, and Acacius, with all their followers ; ( 3 ) everyone exiled in this dispute should be recalled and their cases reserved for the judgment of the Apostolic See ; ( 4 ) those exiles who had been in communion with Rome and professed Catholicism should first be recalled ; and ( 5 ) bishops accused of having persecuted the orthodox should be sent to Rome to be judged.

* Acacius 340 – 366

* Acacius, father of Theodora ( 6th century ) ( 500 – 548 ), empress of the Byzantine Empire

* Acacius, Byzantine proconsul of Armenia Prima ( First Armenia ), c. 536-539

John Talaia refused to subscribe to it and retired to Rome ( 482-483 ), where his cause was taken up with great vigour by letters of Pope Simplicius urging Acacius to check the progress of heresy elsewhere and at Alexandria.

After two years of prevarication and temporizing by Acacius, Pope Felix III of Rome condemned the act and excommunicated Acacius ( 484 ), although this was largely ignored in Constantinople, even after the death of Acacius in 489.

Saint Patrick ( 415-493 ), himself a former slave, argued for the abolition of slavery, as had Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 335-394 ), and Acacius of Amida ( 400-425 ).

* Smith, William ( editor ); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, " Acacius " ( 3 ), Boston, ( 1867 )

* New Martyrs Euthymius, Ignatius ( 1814 ), and Acacius ( 1815 ) of Mount Athos

A pretended correspondence between him and Acacius ( in Coptic ) is proved to be spurious by Amélineau in the " Memoires publiés par les membres de la mission archéologique française au Caire ", IV ( Paris, 1888 ), 196-228.

Saint Agathius ( died 303 ), also known as Achatius or Agathonas or Acacius of Byzantium,