CECROPIUS. - Semi-Arian, bishop first of Laodicea, then transferred to Nicomedia by the emperor Constantius in 351. Judged severely by St. Athanasius for having secured his own elevation through plots and calumnies against the orthodox,

C., in the very year in which he was installed at Nicomedia, took part in the Synod of Sirmium and in the deposition of Photinus. He was one of the recipients of the letter in which George of Laodicea pointed out the harm to which the faith in Antioch was exposed following the recognition of Aetius and his disciples by the patriarch Eudoxius, and requested energetic measures to depose them. A deputation was then sent to the emperor Constantius, who annulled his previous decision in favor of Eudoxius and charged C. with conducting an investigation against Aetius and his companions.

The bishop of Nicomedia died shortly afterward in the earthquake that destroyed the city (358).

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BIBL.: Sozomen, Hist. ecclesiastica, IV, 13, 16, 24; St. Athanasius, Epist. ad episcopos Aegypti, contra Arianos: PG 25, 553; L. S. de Tillemont, Mémoires pour servir à l'hist. ecclés., VI, Venice 1732, pp. 269, 351, 358, 436, 440.

Mario Scaduto

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