CALANDIONE. — Patriarch of Antioch, who succeeded in 481 to STEPHANO II, murdered by the Monophysites. His elevation was due to the emperor Zeno and to the patriarch Acacius of Constantinople. A staunch supporter of the Council of Chalcedon, he began his episcopate with vigorous measures against its opponents in the faith, Peter the Fuller, Timothy Aelurus (v.), and the encyclical of Basiliscus which condemned Chalcedon. But he did not long remain in the favour of his patrons, and Zeno, at the instigation of Acacius, banished him to the Great Oasis (484). The pretext alleged was political: for having erased the emperor’s name from the diptychs and favoured the rebellion of Illus and Leontius; in reality, for having aroused the hostility of Acacius, who accused C. of having anathematised the decrees of Chalcedon and for his refusal to sign Zeno’s Henoticon and to break communion with Pope Felix III.
Mario Scaduto