Acacius of Beroea, a
Syrian, lived in a monastery near
Antioch
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, and, for his active defense of the Church against
Arianism, was made Bishop of
Berroea in 378 AD, by
Eusebius of Samosata.
While a priest, Acacius (with Paul, another priest) wrote to
Epiphanius of Salamis
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a letter, in consequence of which the latter composed his ''
Panarion
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'' (374–376). This letter is prefixed to the work. In 377–378, he was sent to
Rome
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to confute
Apollinaris of Laodicea
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before
Pope Damasus I
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. He was present at the
Ecumenical Council of Constantinople in 381, and on the death of
Meletius of Antioch took part in
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's ordination to the
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of
Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian Antioch) grc-koi, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπ ...
, by whom he was afterwards sent to the Pope in order to heal the schism between the churches of the West and Antioch.
Afterwards, Acacius took part in the persecution against
Chrysostom, and again compromised himself by ordaining as successor to Flavian,
Porphyrius, a man considered unworthy of the episcopate and also a
meletian. He defended
Nestorius
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against Saint Cyril when the former was charged with
heresy
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, though was not himself present at the
Council of Ephesus. At a great age, he labored to reconcile
Cyril of Alexandria and the Eastern Bishops at a Synod held at Beroea in 432 AD.
Acacius died 437, at the purported age of 116 years. Three of his letters remain in the original Greek, one to Cyril,
[extant in the Collection of Councils by ]Mansi
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, vol. iv. p. 1056 and two to Alexander, Bishop of Hierapolis. (Ibid, pp. 819, 830, c.41.55. §129, 143.)
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