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MACEDONIUS, (1) See also:bishop of See also:Constantinople in See also:succession to See also:Eusebius of See also:Nicomedia, was elected by the Arian bishops in 341, while the orthodox party elected See also:Paul, whom Eusebius had superseded. The partisans of the two rivals involved the See also:city in a tumultuous broil, and were not quelled until the See also:emperor See also:Constantius II. banished Paul. Macedonius was recognized as See also:patriarch in 342. Compelled by the intervention of See also:Constans in 348 to resign the patriarchate in favour of his former opponent, he was reinstalled in 350. He then took vengeance on his opponents by a See also:general persecution of the adherents of the Nicene Creed. In 359, on the See also:division of the Arian party into Acacians (or pure Arians) and semi-Arians or Homoiousians, Macedonius adhered to the latter, and in consequence was expelled from his see by the See also:council of Constantinople in 36o. He now became avowed See also:leader of the See also:sect of Pneumatomachi, Macedonians or Marathonians, whose distinctive tenet was that the See also:Holy Spirit is but a being similar to the angels, sub-See also:ordinate to and in the service of the See also:Father and the Son, the relation between whom did not admit of a third. He did not See also:long survive his deposition. See the See also:Church Histories of See also:Socrates and See also:Sozomen; See also:Art. in Did. Chr. Biog.; F. Loofs in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyk.; H.

M. Gwatkin, Arianism.

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