biography
pronunciation:
[nestawrius]
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–c.451)
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| biography:
| Ecclesiastic, a native of Germanicia in N Syria. As a priest he became so eminent for his zeal, ascetic life, and eloquence that he was selected as patriarch of Constantinople (428). When the presbyter Anastasius denied that the Virgin Mary could be truly called the Mother of God, Nestorius warmly defended him, and so emphasized the distinction of the divine and human natures that antagonists accused him of holding that there were two persons in Christ. A controversy ensued, and at a general council in Ephesus in 431 he was deposed. He was confined in a monastery, then banished. |
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