THE POPE CHECKED FOR SUCH INTERMEDDLING. 293 testimony? Why did not historians tell us so much? The pope had then been hissed at, if he had sent legates about such errands. It was, indeed, out of presumption and pragmatical zeal to serve aparty, then ordinary in persons addicted to all parties, right and wrong, it not being then so expressly forbidden by the canons as afterward. Theognis and Theodorus made Macedonius bishop of Constanti- nople.' Theophilus of Alexandria ordained St Chrysostom' The Egyptian bishops surreptitiously constituted Maximus, the Cynic philosopher, bishop of Constantinople.' Acacius, who had as little to do there as the pope, thrust Eudoxius into the throne of Constan- tinople.' Meletius of Antioch constituted St Gregory Nazianzen to the charge of Constantinople.' Acacius and Patrophilus, extruding Maximus, " in his room constituted Cyril" bishop of Jerusalem.' Pope Leo complains of Anatolius, that, " against the canonical rule, he had assumed to himself the ordination of thebishop of Antioch.'"7 2. To obviate these irregular and inconvenient proceedings, having crept in upon the dissensions in faith, and especially upon occasion of Gregory Nazianzen being constituted bishop of Constantinople by Meletius, and Maximus being thrust into the same see by theEgyp- tians, whose party for a time the Roman church countenanced, the second general synod ordained that no bishop should intermeddle about ordinations without the bounds of his own diocese. 3. In pursuance of this law, or upon the ground of it, the pope was sometimes checked when he presumed to make a sally beyond his bounds in this or the like cases. As when Pope Innocent I. sent some bishops to Constantinople for procuring a synod to examine the cause of St Chrysostom, those of Constantinople "caused them to be dismissed with disgrace, as molesting a government beyond their bounds."8 4. Even in the western parts, after that the pope had wriggled himself into most countries there, so as to obtain sway in their trans- actions, yet he in divers places didnot meddle in ordinations. " We do not," says Pope Leo I., "arrogate to ourselves a power of ordain- ing in your provinces."' ' Soz. ii. 6. R 8e.4laaç 'Iaa'vvnv ixç,polórnas.SOC,.. vi. 2. 8 Toúrou x),4avr4 rmv xtfprrovÌar iríoxoror Kmvaravr.our.lx:m; xaria.rr,çar 07 rart dF, Aiyúvrrau çuv[),nXuAórcç.SOZ. vii. 9. Tär rtpi'Axáxvav ivApaviçárrav aúlóv.SOCr. ii. 13. 56ión rp¡únv alç Kmvaravl<vaúra).w S1á 141v rpnyopiou xaráçraorv áQrxé,cctvoç.-202. vii 2, 3. 6'Axáxloç pciv yár xai naQótprxoç Máaav r4 `Itpoaoa.úpamv iV.4Ailçavraç Kípv)xov ávriza- riarnoav.Socr. ii. 238. T Post consecrationem Antiocheni episcopi, quam tibimet contra canonicam regulam vendicasti, &c.P. Leo I., Ep. liii., adAnatol. 6 Tovç poiv úrtprpiav ápxilv ivox),ílaavraç áripawç bzrt,aOAr-iva< rapeoxeríavar.Soz. viii. 28. 9 Non enim nobis ordinationes vestrarum provinciarum defendimus.P. Leo, Ep Ixxxix.
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