Funeral Oration on Meletius

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Saint Meletius was Patriarch of Antioch from 360 until he died on 381. A few of his final acts was to lead over the First Council of Constantinople, deemed in 381. Saint Gregory of Nyssa, famous as among the Cappadocian Fathers, was in appearance, and offered the eulogy at the Saint’s funeral. Still, the script often mentions to an event of happiness in contrary to the rest of Saint Meletius. This calls the most current instatement of Gregory Nazianzen as Archbishop of Constantinople.

Gregory of Nyssa, also referred to as Gregory Nyssen, was bishop of Nyssa from 372 to 376 and from 378 up to his demise. He is honored as a saint in Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism. Gregory, his older brother Basil of Caesarea, and their acquaintance Gregory of Nazianzus are jointly called as the Cappadocian Fathers.

Gregory required the administrative capability of his brother Basil or the existing inspiration of Gregory of Nazianzus, but he was a literary theologian who made momentous influences to the doctrine of the Trinity and the Nicene Creed. Gregory’s ethical works were persuaded by Origen. From the time of the middle 20th century, there has been a substantial escalation in relevance with Gregory’s writings from the scholarly society, especially encompassing universal redemption, which has caused in contests to several customary explanations of his theology.

Christianity ascended in Cappadocia fairly late with no mark of a Christian society before the late 2nd century AD. Alexander of Jerusalem was the first bishop of the province in the start to middle 3rd century, a time in which Christians underwent oppression from the local Roman ruling classes. The society continued to be so little through the 3rd century: when Gregory Thaumaturgus succeeded to the bishopric in c. 250, in accordance with his designation, the Nyssen, there were only 17 members of the Church in Caesarea.
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