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Not long after this, Proclus the bishop brought back to the Church
those who had separated themselves from it on account of Bishop
John's deposition, he having soothed the irritation by a prudent
expedient. What this was we must now recount. Having obtained the
emperor's permission, he removed the body of John from Comana,
where it was buried, to Constantinople, in the thirty-fifth year
after his deposition. And when he had carried it in solemn procession
through the city, he deposited it with much honor in the church termed
The Apostles. By this means the admirers of that prelate were
conciliated, and again associated in communion with the [Catholic]
Church. This happened on the 27th of January, in the sixteenth
consulate of the Emperor Theodosius. But it astonishes me that
envy, which has been vented against Origen since his death, has
spared John. For the former was excommunicated by Theophilus about
two hundred years after his decease; while the latter was restored to
communion by Proclus in the thirty-fifth year after his death! So
different was Proclus from Theophilus. And men of observation and
intelligence cannot be deceived in reference to how these things were
done and are continually being done.
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