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Now at this time Damasus who had succeeded Liberius then presided
over the church at Rome. Cyril was still in possession of that at
Jerusalem. The Antiochian church, as we have stated, was divided
into three parts: for the Arians had chosen Dorotheus as the
successor of their bishop Euzoius; while one portion of the rest was
under the government of Paulinus, and the others ranged themselves
with Melitius, who had been recalled from exile Lucius, although
absent, having been compelled to leave Alexandria, yet maintained the
episcopal authority among the Arians of that city; the Homoousians
there being headed by Timothy, who succeeded Peter. At
Constantinople Demophilus the successor of Eudoxius presided over the
Arian faction, and was in possession of the churches; but those who
were averse to communion with him held their assemblies apart.
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