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Nestorius
[ne-stawr-ee-uhs, -stohr-]
noun
died a.d. 451?, Syrian ecclesiastic: patriarch of Constantinople 428–431.
Nestorius
/ ɛˈɔːɪə /
noun
died ?451 ad , Syrian churchman; patriarch of Constantinople (428–431); deposed for heresy by the Council of Ephesus
Example Sentences
They refuse to accept Nestorius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, as their founder, saying that he was a Greek, while they were Syrians.
We have not to deal with men like Arius or Priscillian, or Nestorius or Eutyches, scholars and prelates who filled the Church with the disputatious wrangles of their learning.
Nestorius held the two natures so far apart as to appear to sacrifice the unity of the person of Christ.
Nestorius is made Patriarch of Constantinople, § 52, 3.
The Council of Ephesus denounced him, and, in spite of the emperor and court, Nestorius was anathematized and driven into exile.
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