The church history of Sozomen, a lawyer of Constantinople, covering the years 324 to 425: the councils, the bishops, the monks of Egypt and Syria, and the emperors from Constantine to Theodosius the Second. In modern English from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation (1890), checked against it chapter by chapter.
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Contents
Book 6
1Julian’s Campaign in Persia and His Death2Julian Struck Down by the Wrath of God3The Reign of Jovian and His Laws4The Council of Antioch Writes to Jovian5Athanasius in Favor with Jovian; Antony’s Vision6Jovian’s Death; Valentinian and Valens7The Council of Lampsacus; Valens Sides with Eudoxius8The Revolt of Procopius; Eleusius and Eunomius at Cyzicus9The Nicene Party and the Novatians Persecuted; Agelius10Persecution under Valens; the Macedonians Send to Rome11The Confession of the Macedonian Envoys to Liberius12Councils in Sicily and Tyana, and Athanasius Hides Again13Demophilus and Evagrius at Constantinople14The Delegates Burned at Sea15Basil and Eusebius Reconciled at Caesarea16Basil, Bishop of Caesarea, Stands Up to the Emperor17Basil and Gregory, Friends in Defense of the Nicene Faith18Persecution at Antioch, and the Faith of Edessa19The Death of Athanasius, and Lucius at Alexandria20Lucius against the Monks of Egypt21Where the Nicene Faith Held Firm, and Vetranio of Scythia22The Question of the Holy Spirit23Damasus of Rome, and the Synod That Condemned Auxentius24Ambrose Made Bishop of Milan, and the Novatians of Phrygia25Apollinaris, Father and Son26Eunomius and His Teacher Aetius27Gregory’s Letter on Apollinaris28Holy Men of Egypt29The Monks of the Thebaid and Scetis30The Long Brothers and Evagrius31Nitria, the Cells, and Rhinocorura32The Monks of Palestine33The Monks of Syria and Persia34The Monks of Edessa, Syria and Cappadocia35The Laurel Tripod and the Killing of the Philosophers36The Death of Valentinian and the Speech of Themistius37The Goths Cross the Danube and Become Arians38Queen Mavia and Moses, Bishop of the Saracens39Peter Regains the Churches of Egypt40Isaac the Monk Foretells the Death of Valens