MENNON, Bishop of Ephesus. - He lived between the end of the 4th century and the first half of the 5th century; he was already bishop of that Church in 431, when the great Council was convened.

In its proceedings he energetically supported St. Cyril of Alexandria (v.) against the partisans of Nestorius; but already at the outset he had forbidden them the use of the churches and denied them permission to celebrate the feast of Pentecost there.

By the Conciliabulum of the Orientals he was deposed together with Cyril, and imprisoned, but was immediately freed by order of the emperor Theodosius and left in his see. A letter of his to the clergy of Constantinople is preserved.

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BIBL.: Tillemont, XIV, pp. 295-485; Hefele-Leclercq, II, pp. 234-48; M. Jugie, Le decret d'Ephène sur les formules de foi et la politique anticatholique en Orient, in Echos d'Orient, 30 (1931), pp. 257-70; C. Hole, s. v. in Dictionary of Christian biography, III, p. 901 ff.

Emanuele Romanelli

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Mennon, Bishop of Ephesus

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