Person
Theodosius I
emperor 379–395
Roman emperor
Attested. The edict and the council are documented. Enforcement varied by region.
Theodosius, from Spain, became eastern emperor in 379. On 27 February 380, at Thessalonica, his edict Cunctos populos ordered the people of Constantinople to hold the Nicene faith confessed by Damasus of Rome and Peter of Alexandria. It was an imperial law, not a council vote. That November he expelled the Homoian bishop Demophilus. He then summoned the council of 381. He was baptized during an illness in 380. He was not a bishop and is not listed in the vote columns. His laws did not instantly end every other Christian group.
Places
Councils
- Constantinople (381)
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
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