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 7
1Constantinople Saved, and Gratian’s Law of Free Worship2Theodosius Made Emperor, and the Exiled Bishops Return3Meletius and Paulinus at Antioch, and the Oath about the Bishop’s Throne4Theodosius Is Baptized, and His Law on the Catholic Faith5Gregory at the Anastasia, and Demophilus Leaves the Churches6The Arians Court the Emperor, and an Old Priest Rebukes Him7The Second General Council, and Gregory Steps Down8Nectarius Chosen Bishop of Constantinople9The Decrees of the Council, and Maximus the Cynic10Martyrius the Physician, and the Bodies of Paul and Meletius11Flavian Ordained at Antioch against His Oath12Theodosius Tries to Unite the Sects, and Sisinnius’s Advice13Maximus Rises in Britain; Justina against Ambrose; the Murder of Gratian14Theodosius Defeats Maximus, and New Bishops in the Great Sees15Flavian and Evagrius, and the Fall of the Serapeum16How the Presbyter over Penance Was Abolished17Eunomius Banished, and the Arians Divided18The Sabbatians and the Keeping of the Passover19Differing Customs in the Churches20The Temples Closed, and the Nile in Flood21The Head of John the Baptist22The Death of Valentinian and the Usurper Eugenius23The Statues Thrown Down at Antioch24Theodosius Defeats Eugenius25Ambrose Bars Theodosius from the Church26Donatus of Euroea and Theotimus of Scythia27Epiphanius of Cyprus28Acacius of Beroea, Zeno and Ajax29The Tombs of Habakkuk and Micah; the Death of Theodosius