Eustathius of Antioch
Eustathius of Antioch, sometimes surnamed
the Great, was a
bishop and
patriarch of Antioch in the
4th century.
He was a native of
Side in
Pamphylia. About
320 he was bishop of
Beroea, and he became
patriarch of Antioch shortly before the
Council of Nicaea in
325. In that assembly he distinguished himself zealously against the
Arians, though the
Allocutio ad Imperatorem with which he has been credited is hardly genuine.
His anti-Arian polemic against
Eusebius of Caesarea made him unpopular among his fellow bishops in the East, and a synod convened at Antioch in
330 passed a sentence of deposition, which was confirmed by the emperor. He was banished to
Trajanopolis in
Thrace, where he died, probably about
337, though possibly not until
360.
The only complete work by Eustathius is the
De Engastrimytho contra Origenem (ed. by
A. Jahn in
Texte und Untersuchungen, ii. 4). Other fragments are enumerated by
G. F. Loofs in
Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopädie.
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