Nestorius
Americannoun
noun
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But Emperor Theodosius declared the session invalid, since Nestorius had been deposed unheard.
From Time Magazine Archive
At length Emperor Theodosius gave in, and in the summer of 431 the council, satisfied that Nestorius was a rank heretic, went home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nestorius, new Patriarch of Constantinople, had declared that Mary could not be truly called "Mother of God."
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In the very first session Nestorius was anathematized, deposed, excommunicated.
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Some years after it, a disturbance arose about a monk of Constantinople, named Eutyches, who had been very zealous against Nestorius, and now ran into errors of an opposite kind.
From Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation by Robertson, James Craigie
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