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Eutyches

c. 380 – c. 456
monkpresbyter

Archimandrite at Constantinople whose monophysite teaching ('one nature after the union') was condemned at the Home Synod (448) and at Chalcedon (451). Heretic.

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Who was Eutyches?
Eutyches (380–456) — Archimandrite at Constantinople whose monophysite teaching ('one nature after the union') was condemned at the Home Synod (448) and at Chalcedon (451). Heretic.
Who did Eutyches oppose?
Flavian of Constantinople and Pope Leo I.

Sources for biography

  • Acta Concilii Chalcedonensis (Sessions 1-2) primary
  • Leo, Epistula 28 primary
  • Theodoret, Eranistes primary

documented connections(2)

  • opposed (incoming) Flavian of Constantinople
    Flavian condemned Eutyches at the Home Synod of 448.
    Acta Concilii Chalcedonensis Session 1
  • opposed (incoming) Pope Leo I
    Leo condemned Eutyches's monophysitism in his Tome.
    Leo, Epistula 28

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