Ephesus
COUNCILS OF, two ecclesiastical assemblies held at Ephesus. The first was the third ecumenical council, summoned by Emperor Theodosius II., in 431, to settle a complicated controversy, involving among other dumb, which was first publicly examined things the fate of NESTORIUS (q. v.), in 1771, and from 1778 received an annual subsidy. He died in 1789.
Bishop of Constantinople. The second was the so-called "robber synod," con- ÉPERNAY, capital of an arrondis-vened by Theodosius (449), to consider sement, in the department of the Marne, on both banks of the river Marne, about 12 miles S. from the city of Rheims. It is the center of a rich champagne wine producing district. Important railroad shops are located there. The population before the World War was about 21,- 000. It was captured by the Germans during the first German advance toward Paris, after the beginning of military operations, in August, 1914, and held by them until, driven back during the battles of the Marne, their lines were established from ten to fifteen miles to the northward.