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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series • VOL 2 • SECTION 274

Canons, passed by the Nicene Council, [422]19; Athanasius charged of violating, [423]38; Macedonius installed contrary to, [424]43.

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Canons, passed by the Nicene Council, [422]19; Athanasius charged of violating, [423]38; Macedonius installed contrary to, [424]43.

Carosa, daughter of the Emperor Valens, [425]99.

Carterius, an ascetic, [426]139.

Carterius, a Macedonian, [427]135.

Carya, building called, [428]153.

'Cataphrygians,' the, a sect, [429]63.

Catechising, [430]10.

Catechumens, in the ancient church, [431]114, [432]132.

Celestinus, bishop of Rome, succeeds Boniface, [433]158.

Ceras, bay of Constantinople, [434]66.

Ceremonial law abrogated, [435]130.

Chalcedon, walls of, destroyed, [436]99.

Chalice, story of the broken, [437]30.

Chanters in the ancient church, how chosen, [438]132.

Chrestus, bishop of Nicæa, displaced by Theognis, [439]20.

Christianity, ridiculed on account of the Arian controversy, [440]5; its dissemination among the 'Indians' (Ethiopians), [441]23; the Iberians, [442]24; the Goths, [443]115; the Persians, [444]157; the Burgundians, [445]170.

Christians, their dissensions characterized by outrages, [446]40; exposed to persecution and torture, [447]55; real and spurious made manifest by Julian's treatment, [448]85; persecuted under Julian, [449]85, [450]86, [451]89; a philosopher's opinion on differences between them, [452]115; slaughtered by the Jews at Alexandria, [453]159; those in Persia persecuted, [454]162.

Chrysanthus, Novatian bishop of Constantinople, succeeds Sisinnius, [455]156, [456]158; his character and virtues, [457]158; his death, [458]161.

Chrysopolis, [459]2.

Church, history of, written by Eusebius, [460]1; relations to State, [461]118.

Churches, at Nicæa, [462]8; at Constantinople, [463]21, [464]38, [465]43, [466]66, [467]67, [468]73, [469]96, [470]99, [471]120, [472]140, [473]141, [474]146, [475]147, [476]148, [477]150, [478]171, [479]175, [480]177; at Bethlehem, [481]21; at Jerusalem, [482]21; at Heliopolis, [483]22; near the Oak of Mamre, [484]22; in 'India' (Ethiopia), [485]23; in Iberia, [486]24; at Antioch, [487]38, [488]97, [489]119, [490]120, [491]126; at Alexandria, [492]40, [493]51, [494]55, [495]78, [496]80, [497]156, [498]159, [499]160; at Seleucia, [500]67, [501]68; at Cyzicus, [502]85; at Edessa, [503]104; at Rome, [504]109, [505]158; at Milan, [506]113; at Chalcedon, [507]141, [508]150; at Ancyra, [509]152.

Cinaron, place where Hypatia's limbs were burnt, [510]160.

Clearchus, governor of Constantinople under Valens, [511]99.

Clemens of Alexandria, an early writer, [512]60, [513]81.

Cleomedes, a pugilist, deified, [514]94.

Clergy, marriage of, [515]18, [516]132.

Coeternity of the Son of God, [517]4, [518]48, [519]60, [520]123.

Co-inoriginacy of the Son, [521]45.

Colossians, Epistle to the, [522]130.

Comana, death of Chrysostom at, [523]151.

Comet of a prodigious magnitude, [524]141.

Conflict between the Constantinopolitans and the Alexandrians, [525]149; between the Jews and Christians at Alexandria, [526]159.

Constans, the youngest son of Constantine the Great, [527]35; favors Athanasius and Paul, [528]42, [529]44; threatens war against his brother Constantius, [530]49; treacherously slain by Magnentius, [531]53; is presented a creed, [532]72.

Constantia, wife of Licinius and sister of Constantine the Great, [533]2; interests herself in behalf of Arius, [534]28; death of, [535]28.

Constantia, a town in Palestine, [536]22.

Constantianæ, bath so named, [537]99.

Constantine, the Great, his life written by Eusebius, [538]1; proclaimed emperor, [539]1; conversion of, [540]2; conflict with Licinius, [541]2; proclaimed Autocrat, [542]3; sends Hosius to Alexander and Arius, [543]6; convokes the Synod of Nicæa, [544]8; his letters against Arius, Eusebius of Nicomedia, and Theognis, [545]13-15; his letter to Eusebius Pamphilus on copying the Scriptures, [546]16; to Macarius on building a church, [547]16; exhorts the Nicomedians to choose another bishop, [548]17; summons Acesius the Novatian to the Synod, [549]17; his devout character, [550]18; transfers the government of the empire to Constantinople and names the city New Rome, [551]20; builds churches in it, [552]20; adorns it, [553]21; appropriates the nails of the Saviour's cross, [554]21; abolishes gladiatorial combats, [555]22; effects various reforms, [556]22; progress of Christianity under him, [557]25; receives an Arian presbyter and invites Arius to his presence, [558]26; orders Athanasius to receive Arius, [559]29; summons the Council of Tyre to the New Jerusalem, [560]32; banishes Athanasius, [561]33; receives Arius, [562]34; baptism, happy death, and obsequies, [563]35; tomb and ashes removed by Macedonius, [564]67.

Constantine II., eldest son of Constantine the Great, [565]35; recalls and reinstates Athanasius, [566]37; writes to the church of Alexandria, [567]37; again banishes Athanasius, [568]37; invades the dominions of Constans, and is slain, [569]37, [570]53.

Constantine's Forum, [571]35.

Constantinople, named New Rome, [572]21; embellished, [573]21; disturbance at, about the choice of a bishop, [574]38, [575]41; councils held at, [576]71, [577]73, [578]121, [579]122, [580]129, [581]150; populousness of, [582]104, [583]174; patriarchial dignity of its see, [584]121, [585]168.

Constantius I., father of Constantine the Great, his death, [586]1.

Constantius II., second son of Constantine the Great, [587]35; succeeds his father and favors an Arian presbyter, [588]36; transfers Eusebius of Nicomedia to Constantinople, [589]38; expels Paul, [590]38; deprives the inhabitants of Constantinople of aid granted by his father, [591]41; orders Paul to be expelled by force, [592]42; summons the Eastern bishops to a conference, [593]49; sustains a check in the war with Persia, [594]53; proclaimed sole emperor of the East, [595]53; persecutes opponents of Arianism, [596]54; makes Gallus Cæsar, [597]55; resides at Sirmium, [598]59; goes to Rome, [599]59; convokes a synod, [600]59; puts Gallus to death and raises his brother to the dignity of Cæsar, [601]59; favors the Arian heresy and writes a letter to the Synod of Ariminum, [602]64; is baptized by Euzoïus and dies of apoplexy, [603]75, [604]77.

Constantius, brother of Constantine the Great, and father of Julian, [605]76.

Cordova in Spain, [606]6.

Corinth, metropolitan see subject to Rome, [607]173.

Corinthians, First Epistle to, [608]106.

Cornelius, bishop of Rome, [609]112.

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