Eutherius of Tyana

Eutherius Tyanensis

Biography

Born before 400, metropolitan bishop of Tyana in Second Cappadocia, Eutherius, at the Council of Ephesus (431) took the side of Nestorius and John of Antioch, and vigorously opposed Cyril of Alexandria. Refusing the Act of Union in 433, he was exiled to Scythopolis, whence he escaped to Tyre to join Irenaeus, a former imperial official who had become a bishop and remained faithful to the Antiochian cause. His Antilogia (Protest, SC 557), composed around 432, attacked Cyril's proposals, as well as the 5 letters under his name in a Latin version of the conciliar acts. The date of Eutherius' death after 441 is not known. His writings, very representative of the most virulent Nestorianism, are important for the history of the Nestorian controversy.

Works

• Antilogia/Confutationes quarundam propositionum

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