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Athanasius (grandson of Theodora)

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154:. When, however, their views became known there, they were greatly blamed by many of their compeers, and admonished: and upon their refusal to withdraw them, the sentence of deposition was passed upon them: upon which, they and Athanasius, the son of queen Theodora's daughter, "who increased and multiplied the heresy by a liberal expenditure of gold", took measures in concert for obtaining a third bishop according to the 188:
each other. Athanasius considered changing his will. But death prevented him from doing so. John records:"Athanasius purposed to change his will, and exclude Conon from it, but died suddenly: and when his will was opened, Conon took what was written in it, while still excommunicating him who had left
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Athanasius is recorded spending gold to spread this belief: "The great difficulty which they found in propagating their audacious and polluted heresy was the want of bishops. For at first there were but two, namely, Conon himself, the head of the schism, and Eugenius, both bishops of towns in
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I reckon the natures and substances and Godheads according to the number of the persons.' But for the learning of Philoponus the sect would probably have expired with its founder; but an adventitious importance was further given to it by its being joined by "Athanasius, the son of Theodora's
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followed this belief in his second term (577-582). He explains what this Patriarch supported: "These bodies of men do not attain to the resurrection, but others are created anew, which arise in their stead."
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would pass to various friends. But Conon would receive "the sum of ten pounds of gold immediately and an annuity of two pounds of gold for life".
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first mentions him as "Athanasius, the son of queen Theodora's daughter". He received a religious education, his mentors being Amantius and
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died. Athanasius the Monk was a candidate for the vacant throne. He was apparently a failed candidate for the
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daughter, whose great wealth was freely expended in obtaining converts."
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The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume III, AD 527–641
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Ecclesiastical History, Part 3. A New Translation from the Greek
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John of Ephesus (1860), Part 3, Book 1, Chapter 30 and notes
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But Athanasius and Conon had a severe argument and mutually
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Index

Theodora
Justinian I
John of Ephesus
Michael the Syrian
Bar-Hebraeus
Theodora
Justinian I
John of Ephesus
Sergius of Tella
Edessa
Syriac Patriarch of Antioch
Monophysites
Tritheite
John Asconaghes
Aristotelian
Alexandria
Aristotle
Bar-Hebraeus
Christ
Incarnate Word
Trinity
monk
Pope Theodosius I of Alexandria
Coptic Papacy
heresy
resurrection of the physical body
Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople
Cilicia
canon
Justin II

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