SPEAR Factoids about Anathema

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event: Severus wrote a letter to Solon concerning his ordination, piety, and relationship to unorthodox bishops. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to Ammonius on the necessity of affirming correct theology but also anathematizing incorrect theology. See factoid page

event: Athanasius wrote a letter indicating he accepted the Henotikon without specifically anathematizing the Council of Chalcedon or Leo's Tome. See factoid page

event: Anonymi 3697 loyal to Justinian reported Elijah of Dara to the emperor See factoid page

event: John wrote a letter indicating he accepted the Henotikon without specifically anathematizing the Council of Chalcedon or Leo's Tome. See factoid page

event: John wrote a letter to Dioscorus and Chaeremon See factoid page

event: Menas and Isidore wrote a letter to Severus reporting that Epiphanius excommunicated Anonymi 3034 when they would not commune with him. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to archimandrite of the monastery of Bassus about a controversy surrounding a corrupt bishop of Apamea. See factoid page

event: The supporters of the synod of Chalcedon used troops to expell people from their homes, and to arrest, imprison, plunder, torture, and kill those who did not support the synod. The persecutors then turned their attention to Sergius, first using honeyed words and then threats when he refused to leave his enclosure. Sergius anathemized the persecutors as they pulled him out of his enclosure and expelled him from the community. See factoid page

event: Zeʿora anathematized the Council of Chalcedon and inflicted the emperor with swelling and a compromised mental state. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to Archaelaus concerning the invalidity of heretics who adminsister bans. See factoid page

event: Sergius received a blessing from Maro and then set out to visit the churh in Amida. Sergius walked into the church in Amida, carrying a cross, and planted his cross on the chancel steps before seizing the preacher, Bishop Abraham, by the neck and throwing him to the ground. Sergius mounted the steps and addressed the crowd: "Cursed are the renegades; cursed are the persecutors; cursed is the synod of Chaledon, and whosoever assents to it. Cursed is every soul that receives the oblation from you and assents to your opinion unless he repents." The crowd, a mixture of believers and synod supporters, responded with praise and anger. See factoid page

event: In 511 This regularized date was calculated by the SPEAR editor from a non-calendrical dating system such as regnal years, etc. After his accession as bishop , Timothy wrote a synodical letter that he sent to John and others in which he did not anathematize the Council of Chalcedon. This regularized date was calculated by the SPEAR editor from a non-calendrical dating system such as regnal years, etc. See factoid page

event: Severus was aware of many letters written by Peter to himself and to the presbyter Thomas, wherein Peter accused Severus and others of breaking canon-law and tradition by allowing for ordinations outside of the diocese. See factoid page

event: John responded to the synodical letter of Timothy and urged him to anathematize the Council of Chalcedon. See factoid page

event: Severus responded to John by refusing to accept the synod of Chalcedon as a repudiation of Nestorius and Eutyches, because the Chalcedonian creed and the Tome of Leo support Nestorianism; Severus does not believe that anathematizing Eutyches makes the Council of Chalcedon legitimate, because the followers of Arius were still heretics even though they repudiated the teachings of Sabellius. See factoid page

event: Severus urged Theotecnus to condemn Romanus in a synodical letter. See factoid page

event: Anastasios wrote a letter to John complaining about his refusal simply to accept the Henotikon without anathemas of Chalcedon. His letter cites letters by Peter Mongus, Athanasius, John, and John. See factoid page

event: Peter Mongus wrote a letter indicating he accepted the Henotikon without specifically anathematizing the Council of Chalcedon or Leo's Tome. See factoid page

event: Elijah of Dara anathematized Anonymi 3697 who were loyal to the emperor See factoid page

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“Keyword Page for Anathema,” in SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, $nav-base/aggregate/keyword/anathema.html, 2023-03-23T12:33:52.92-04:00.

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