Maximian Chosen Bishop of Constantinople

After this there was another dispute over the choice of a bishop of Constantinople. Many favored Philip, whom we have mentioned before, but a still larger number pressed the claims of Proclus. Proclus would have been chosen, had not some of the most influential people stepped in, on the ground that the church’s canon forbade anyone appointed to one bishopric to be transferred to the bishopric of another city. The people believed this and held back. About four months after the deposition of Nestorius, a man named Maximian was raised to the bishopric. He had lived an ascetic life and also held the rank of presbyter. He had won a great name for holiness because he had built, at his own expense, tombs to receive devout people after their death; but he was “untrained in speech” and inclined to live a quiet life. [a]