Socrates: Ecclesiastical History I

Massacre in the Cathedral When the Emperor Constantius, who then held his court at Antioch, heard that Paul [bishop of Constantinople] had again obtained possession of the episcopal throne, he was excessively enraged at his presumption. He therefore despatched a written order to Philip, the Prætorian Prefect,… to drive Paul out of the church again, and introduce Macedonius into it in his place. … Philip, dreading an insurrectionary movement among […]

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