Nestorius

[ne-stawr-ee-uhs, -stohr-]

noun

1. died a.d. 451?, Syrian ecclesiastic: patriarch of Constantinople 428–431.

Nestorius

/ nɛˈstɔːrɪəs /

noun

1. died ?451 _ad , Syrian churchman; patriarch of Constantinople (428–431); deposed for heresy by the Council of Ephesus

Example Sentences

They refuse to accept Nestorius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, as their founder, saying that he was a Greek, while they were Syrians.

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We have not to deal with men like Arius or Priscillian, or Nestorius or Eutyches, scholars and prelates who filled the Church with the disputatious wrangles of their learning.

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Nestorius held the two natures so far apart as to appear to sacrifice the unity of the person of Christ.

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Nestorius is made Patriarch of Constantinople, § 52, 3.

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The Council of Ephesus denounced him, and, in spite of the emperor and court, Nestorius was anathematized and driven into exile.

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