Maris (

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: Μάρις) was a bishop of

Chalcedon Chalcedon (; ; sometimes transliterated as ) was an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor, Turkey. It was located almost directly opposite Byzantium, south of Scutari (modern Üsküdar) and it is now a district of the city of Ist ...

in the 4th century and a prominent backer of

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. He is best known to

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as an attendee present at the Council of Nicaea in 325. He was one of the

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at that Council. He eventually signed the

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with the other Arian supporters, Zopyrus of Barca,

Eusebius of Nicomedia Eusebius of Nicomedia (; ; died 341) was an Arian priest who baptised Constantine the Great on his deathbed in 337. A fifth-century legend evolved that Pope Sylvester I was the one to baptise Constantine, but this is dismissed by scholars as ...

and Theognis of Nicaea. He was

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d with the other three Arian bishops. He is also notable for confronting the anti-Christian emperor

Julian the Apostate Julian (; ; 331 – 26 June 363) was the Caesar of the West from 355 to 360 and Roman emperor from 361 to 363, as well as a notable philosopher and author in Greek. His rejection of Christianity, and his promotion of Neoplatonic Hellenism ...

in 362 after going blind - in reply to Julian telling him: "Thy Galilean God will not heal thy sight." He replied: "I thank God for depriving me of the power of beholding thy face."Socr. iii. 12; Soz. v. 4; Tillem. vii. 332

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4th-century bishops in Roman Anatolia People excommunicated by Christian churches Arian bishops Year of birth unknown Bishops of Chalcedon Participants in the First Council of Nicaea {{Medieval-bishop-stub