Key Facts:

Date 335
Location Tyre
Summoned by
 Constantine
Chaired by Flacillus of Antioch
Overseen by Dionysius, the consul
Number of Participants
 60 bishops
Key Participants
 Eusebius of Caesarea; Eusebius of Nicomedia; Paul of Tyre; Paphnutius, the confessor; Maximus of Jerusalem; Athanasius; Ursacius of Singidunum; Valens of Mursa (the latter were among the accusers of Athanasius)
Purpose Examination into charges of misconduct against Athanasius (including the breaking of a sacred chalice, the alleged assassination of Arsenius, etc.)
Key Events
  Sent a commission to Mareotis in Egypt to gather evidence; recessed to participate in the dedication ceremonies of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem; reconvened and deposed Athanasius; the latter fled to Constantinople, and then was sent by the emperor to Trier.
Ancient Descriptions
 Athanasius, Apologia Secunda 6-18, 71-83; Socrates, XXVII and HE 1.28-35; Sozomen, HE 2.23, 25, 28; Theodoret, HE 1.29-31.

Surviving Documents:

Letter from Constantine to the bishops at Tyre

Bibliography

T.D. Barnes, Athanasius and Constantius (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 22-23.

A. Di Berardino, “Tyre” in Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2014), vol. 3, p.859.

R.P.C. Hanson, The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God (New York: T&T Clark, 1988) pp.255-262.

M. Simonetti, “Tyre” in The Encyclopedia of the Early Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), vol. 2, p. 855.

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