For example in the mid 350 ’ s the city of Jerusalem was hit with drastic food shortages at which point church historians Sozomen and Theodoret reported “ Cyril secretly sold sacramental ornaments of the church and a valuable holy robe, fashioned with gold thread that the emperor Constantine had once donated for the bishop to wear when he performed the rite of Baptism ”.

* Theodoret of Cyrrhus, bishop and theologian ( approximate date )

* Theodoret of Cyrrhus, bishop and theologian

Theodoret of Cyrus or Cyrrhus (; c. 393 – c. 457 ) was an influential author, theologian, and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus, Syria ( 423-457 ).

Irenaeus the friend of Nestorius, with the cooperation of Theodoret, became bishop of Tyre, in spite of the protests of Dioscorus, Cyril's successor, who now turned specially against Theodoret ; and, by preferring the charge that he taught two sons in Christ, he secured the order from the court confining Theodoret to Cyrrhus.

* Theodoret becomes bishop of Cyrrhus ( Syria ).

Theodoret called him an " apostolic " bishop.

But they concluded that the text had a historical basis and " that the solution of most problems in the fact is to be found in that fact that the text of the Vita transmitted to us represents a revision of the sixth century, which borrowed from the church history of Theodoret of Cyrrhus of 444, e. g. for the Proemium and deleted in particular each mention of John II, Bishop of Jerusalem, replacing it with the name of Praylius, his successor as bishop of Jerusalem in the time of Porphyrius ".

Saint Hippolytus ( c. 170-c. 236 AD ), the Father of the Church History Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. 263 – c. 339 AD ), and the Christian bishop Theodoret ( c. 393 – c. 457 AD ) regarded him as a father of Armenians.

In the following year, Theodoret of Cyrrhus assented to this formula as well.

Most accounts of Cyril place him in better light like Theodoret of Cyrrhus who referred to Cyril as “ an earnest champion of the apostolic decrees of Nicaea and says nothing about Arian conspiracy to make him Maximus successor ”.

Theodoret was compelled to leave Cyrrhus and retire to his monastery at Apamea.

The " Three Chapters " were, one, both the person and writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia ( d. 428 ), two, the attacks on Cyril of Alexandria and the First Council of Ephesus written by Theodoret of Cyrrhus ( d. c. 466 ), and three, the attacks on Cyril and Ephesus by Ibas of Edessa ( d. 457 ).

His last major defender within the Roman Empire, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, finally agreed to anathematize him in 451 ( during the Council of Chalcedon ); from then on he had no defenders within the empire.

* CHESNUT, Glenn F. " Sozomen, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, and Evagrius Scholasticus: Other Successors and Continuators ," The First Christian Histories.

Domnus II, Patriarch of Antioch of the heavily religious Eastern Roman Empire, and a friend of the influential Saint Theodoret Bishop of Cyrrhus.

According to Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus, Simeon developed a zeal for Christianity at the age of 13, following a reading of the Beatitudes.

The story is found in the writings of Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus, Syria.

42 ), and Theodoret ; also Augustine and ' Praedestinatus '; and in nearly all the legends on gems.

His mother having been childless for twelve years, his birth was promised by a hermit named Macedonius on the condition of his dedication to God, whence the name Theodoret (" gift of God ").

Excepting the commentary on Isaiah ( fragments preserved in the catenae ) and on Galatians ii. 6-13, the exegetical writings of Theodoret are extant.

To the same belong chapters xiii-xv, xvii, and brief parts of other chapters of the fragments which Jean Garnier ( Auctarium ) included under the title, Pentology of Theodoret on the Incarnation as well as three of the five fragments referred by Marius Mercator to the fifth book of some writing of Theodoret.

His Historia Ecclesiastica, in eighteen books, brings the narrative down to 610 ; for the first four centuries the author is largely dependent on his predecessors, Eusebius, Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, Theodoret and Evagrius, his additions showing very little critical faculty ; for the later period his labours, based on documents now no longer extant, to which he had free access, though he used them also with small discrimination, are much more valuable.

Theodoret of Cyrus: Commentary on the Prophets Vol 3: Commentary on the Twelve Prophets.

Allen also reasons that Evagrius built on Zachariah ’ s work because his was the only comprehensive historical account of events taking place from Theodoret of Cyrus ’ s time till his own era.

In 447 AD 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.

Theodoret reports on her works of charity, personally tending to the disabled.

Shortly before his death, Theodore took monastic orders under the name " Theodoret ", and died on June 24, 1407.

Theodoret of Cyrus ( c. 393 – c. 457 ) wrote that Isaiah calls the king " morning star ", not as being the star, but as having had the illusion of being it.

In the 5th century Theodoret tells ( Heresies 1: 24 ) of having found serpent worship practised in his diocese by people whom he calls Marcionites, but whom we may believe to have been really Ophites.

According to ancient historians Sozomen, Socrates, and Theodoret, Pulcheria had a deep dislike for Anthemius, the former guardian of Theodosius ; the reasons may have been his distaste for her immense power within the empire and her unwillingness to allow Anthemius to gain power amongst the imperial court.

Although, following Theodoret, we have given the name Ophite to the system described by Irenaeus, it will have been seen that not only does the doctrine concerning the serpent form a very subordinate part of the system, but also that the place it assigns the serpent is very different from that given it by those whom we count as properly to be called Ophites.

Both Ibas and Theodoret had been deprived of their bishoprics by condemned heretics, and both were restored by the Council of Chalcedon upon anathematizing Nestorius.

The flame was fed by leading men who had been disciples of the Interpreter: by Theodoret, who regarded him as a " doctor of the universal church " ( H. E. v. 39 ); by Ibas of Edessa, who in 433 wrote his famous letter to Maris in praise of Theodore ; by John I of Antioch, who in 428 succeeded to the see of Antioch.

When Helena, mother of Constantine the Great discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem, the legend was told by and repeated by Sozomen and Theodoret that the Holy Nails had been recovered too.

Statements and fragments of his apparently very numerous works have been preserved by Origen, Theodoret, and especially by Eusebius, and from them we may with learn the nature of his Platonist-Pythagorean philosophy, and its approximation to the doctrines of Plato.

Both authors mention refutations: Eusebius an untitled work, Theodoret one known as The Little Labyrinth, which has been attributed to a Roman priest named Caius, and more recently to Hippolytus of Rome, the supposed author of the Philosophoumena.

John, reconciled to Cyril by the emperor's order, sought to bring Theodoret to submission by entrenching upon his eparchy.

Theodoret stands out prominently in the christological controversies aroused by Cyril of Alexandria.

McGuckin points out that other representatives of the Antiochene tradition such as John of Antioch, Theodoret and Andrew of Samosata were able to recognize " the point of the argument for Christ's integrity " and concede the " ill-advised nature of Nestorius ' immoveability.

Monoimus ( lived somewhere between 150-210 CE ) was an Arab gnostic ( Arabic name probably Mun ' im منعم ), who was known only from one account in Theodoret ( Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium i. 18 ) until a lost work of anti-heretical writings ( Refutation of All Heresies, book 8, chapter V ) by Hippolytus was found.

Eulogius and Maras then hastened to join their companions in Constantinople, where they found a powerful party strongly hostile to the Eastern bishops, Theodoret in particular.

Although Roman Catholic canonists admit that theological errors, and in the case of Theodore very serious ones, can be found in the writings, the mistakes of Theodoret and Ibas were chiefly but not wholly due to a misunderstanding of the language of Cyril of Alexandria.