Theodoret
a Church historian; Church historian; a monastery; and in 423 became Bishop of Syria. Here he labored with the utmost zeal , and he himself claims to have self claims to have converted over 1,000 foremost representative of the school of Antioch he became deeply involved in the great Nestorian controversies, and was finally deposed by the celebrated Robber Council of Ephesus in 449. This was recouncil of Chalcedon in 451, but don in 451, but Theodoret did not long , dying about 457.
His works were edited by Schulze and ), and consist of com mentaries on Canticles, the Prophets, Psalms, and the whole of St. Paul's Epistles; a "History of the Church," by T. by T. Gaisford, 1854) "Religious His- from A. D. 325 to 429, in five books, (ed .
Fa tory," ry," being the tory," being the lives of the so-called Fathers of the Desert; the "Eranistes," Concise History of Heresies," together a dialogue against Eutychianism; "A with orations and letters. born in Pannonia in 455; son of Theo-