Basil of Seleucia

Basilius Seleuciensis

Biography

Born around the beginning of the 5^th century, Basil governed the Church of Seleucia for more than thirty years (after 431, and at least until 468). Oscillating according to theological expediency, he anathematized Eutyches at the synod of Constantinople (448), voted in the “Robber Council” of Ephesus (449) for the rehabilitation of the same heretic and the deposition of the Patriarch Flavian, and condemned Eutyches again at the Council of Chalcedon (451), only narrowly escaping the deposition with which he was threatened. Fifty homilies, not all authentic, have come down to us under his name.

Works

• Fragmentum in Genesim XXII,13b
• Homilia in assumptionem Domini
• Homilia in beatum Iob
• Homilia in feriam V et in proditionem Iudae
• Homilia in Lazarum

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