3PCZO-FCSPO to submit, but the patriarch was safe only under military protection Edicts were issued by Emperor Theodosius I I against the Eutychians in 452, forbidding them to have priests or assemblies to make wills or inherit property or to military service Priests who were obstinate in error were to be banished beyond the limits of the empire.2 Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria was patriarch of Alexandria at the time He was deposed by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 but was recognized as patriarch by the Coptic Church When the death of Dioscurus (September 454) in exile at Gangra was known, two bishops consecrated Timothy Ỉlurus as his successor Henceforward, almost the whole of Egypt acknowledged the Monophysite patriarch In February 457, Archdeacon Proterius was murdered in a riot, and Catholic bishops everywhere were replaced by Monophysites.Antioch, the other great rival of Constantinople, also embraced Monophysitism By the sixth century, Monophysitism had a strong institutional basis in three churches: the ǡ , and the , all of which remain nominally Monophysite today Divisions arose in the Eastern Church, which caused Rome to eventually excommunicate the Monophysitists in 519 ad But they didn’t care about Rome or Greece The response on the part of the people seems to have been one of complete loyalty to the emperor But in 516, the monks and people of Alexandria rioted against Emperor Anastasius’s choice of patriarch, and more than a few monasteries in Egypt refused to bow to the Orthodox emperor Heralius, the heretic Each of the provinces had maintained their own distinctive heritage and traditions, and because the Monophysite position seems to have attached itself to the vernacular language of these areas, it was popular among the common people. The Monophysite controversies continued the theological, political, social, and philosophical tensions between the Christians at Alexandria and the Christians at Antioch It was condemned as heresy at the sixth ecumenical council in 680–81ad The Alexandrian onophysites ultimately separated to become the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church in Syria and Armenia, onophysitism dominated a permanent schism resulted in the creation of the Jacobite, Coptic, and Armenian Churches ~ ~