, the founder of a sect of heretics in the fourth century, was a native
, the founder of a sect of heretics in the
fourth century, was a native of Arabissus in Armenia Minor,
and patriarch of Antioch, to which he was advanced in the
year 356, and of Constantinople, to which he was promoted in the year 359, and which he retained till his death
in the year 370. He was a great defender of the Arian
doctrine, though represented as somewhat fluctuating and
unsteady in his principles, and was a bitter persecutor of
the catholics. Of his works no remains are extant, except
some fragments of a treatise “De Incarnatione Dei verbi;
”
to which Cave has referred. The Eudoxians adhered to
the errors of the Arians and Eunomians, maintaining that
the Son was created out of nothing that he had a will
distinct and different from that of the Father, &c.