CALANDIONE

CALANDIONE. - Patriarch of Antioch, who succeeded in 481 Stefano II, slain by the Monophysites, he owed his elevation to the emperor Zenone and to the patriarch Acacio of Constantinople. An ardent supporter of the Council of Chalcedon, he began his episcopate with energetic measures against his adversaries in the faith, Pietro Fullone, Tinoteo Giuro (v.) and the encyclical of Basilisco that condemned Chalcedon. But he did not long remain in the favour of his patrons, and Zenone, at the instigation of Acacio, exiled him to the Great Oasis (484). The alleged reason was political: that he had erased the emperor’s name from the diptychs and favoured the rebellion of Illo and Leonzio; in reality, it was because he had aroused the hostility of Acacio, whom C. accused of having anathematized the decrees of Chalcedon, and because of his refusal to sign Zenone’s Henoticon and to break communion with Pope Felice III.