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THE Emperor Valens leaving Constantinople again set out towards
Antioch; but on his arrival at Nicomedia, a city of Bithynia, his
progress was arrested by the following circumstances. Eudoxius the
bishop of the Arian church who has been in possession of the seat of
the Constantinopolitan church for nineteen years, died soon after the
emperor's departure from that city, in the third consulate of
Valentinian and Valens. The Arians therefore appointed Demophilus
to succeed him; but the Homoousians considering that an opportunity
was afforded them, elected a certain Evagrius, a person who
maintained their own principles; and Eustathius, who had been bishop
of Antioch, formally ordained him. He had been recalled from exile
by Jovian, and had at this time privately come to Constantinople,
for the purpose of confirming the adherents to the doctrine of the
homoousion.
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