Definition: Theodoret wrote an Ecclesiastical History up to A.D. 428. He was born in 393, in Antioch, Syria, and became bishop in 423, in the village of Cyrrhus. He was involved in the Nestorian controversy. As a result, he was removed from his see at the Second Council of Ephesus (the Robber Synod) of 449, but was re-instated at the Council of Chalcedon after Theodosius II died. Like Sozomen and Socrates' histories, Theodoret's is also a continuation of Eusebius'. It was published before July 28, 450, when Theodosius II died. The history is written around the reigns of the emperors, but Theodoret pays little attention to chronology. His interests are moralizing and the Church controversies. Theodoret's sources include earlier Church histories, Athanasius, letters, primary documents, and the lost Against Eunomius of Theodore of Mopsuetia.
Source: The Historians of Late Antiquity, by David Rohrbacher.
Occupation: Historian
Also Known As: Theodoret of Cyrrhus
