Demophilus and Evagrius at Constantinople

About this time the emperor Valens set out for Antioch on the Orontes. While he was on his way, Eudoxius died, after governing the churches of Constantinople for eleven years. The Arian bishops at once ordained Demophilus to succeed him. The followers of the Nicene doctrines, believing that the moment was in their hands, elected Evagrius as their bishop. Evagrius had been ordained by Eustathius, who had once governed the church of Antioch in Syria. Jovian had recalled Eustathius from banishment, and he was living privately at Constantinople, where he gave himself to teaching those who shared his views and urged them to stand firm in their belief about God. The Arian heretics were stirred to revolt and began a violent persecution of those who had taken part in ordaining Evagrius. The emperor Valens was then at Nicomedia. When he learned what had happened in Constantinople since the death of Eudoxius, he feared that some interest of the city might suffer from civil strife, and so he sent there as many troops as he thought necessary to keep the peace. [a] On his orders Eustathius was arrested and banished to Bizya, a city of Thrace, and Evagrius was exiled to another region. That is how these things happened. [b]