Sabinus of Heraclea was bishop of

Heraclea in Thrace Heraclea, Heracleia, Herakleia, or Heraclia ( grc, Ἡράκλεια) may refer to: Places * Heraclea (island), in the Aegean Sea, today called Iraklia or Irakleia Ancient cities In Asia * Heraclea Cybistra, Konya Province, Turkey ** Ereğli, ...

, and a leader of the party and sect of Macedonius. He was the author of a collection of the Acts of the councils of the Catholic Church, from the council of Nicaea to his own time. William Cave fixes the date at which Sabinus flourished as c. 425. The church history of Sabinus was much used by

Socrates of Constantinople Socrates of Constantinople ( 380 – after 439), also known as Socrates Scholasticus ( grc-gre, Σωκράτης ὁ Σχολαστικός), was a 5th-century Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret. He is ...

in his ''Ecclesiastical History'', who speaks of it as untrustworthy, because Sabinus was partisan, and omitted, and even wilfully altered, facts and statements adverse to his views and interests. Socrates shews how Sabinus tries to disparage the fathers of Nicaea in the face of the contrary evidence of

Eusebius Eusebius of Caesarea (; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος ; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christ ...

, and makes no mention whatever of Macedonius, lest he should have to describe his deeds.

Baronius Cesare Baronio (as an author also known as Caesar Baronius; 30 August 1538 – 30 June 1607) was an Italian cardinal and historian of the Catholic Church. His best-known works are his '' Annales Ecclesiastici'' ("Ecclesiastical Annals"), w ...

ad ann. 325, xxxix., ad ann. 344, iii. etc. speaks strongly of Sabinus's unscrupulous handling of history, calls him "homo mendacissimus," and suggests that

Sozomen Salamanes Hermias Sozomenos ( grc-gre, Σαλαμάνης Ἑρμείας Σωζομενός; la, Sozomenus; c. 400 – c. 450 AD), also known as Sozomen, was a Roman lawyer and historian of the Christian Church. Family and home He was born aro ...

gives a garbled account of the election of

Athanasius Athanasius I of Alexandria, ; cop, ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲡⲓⲁⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲓⲕⲟⲥ or Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ ⲁⲑⲁⲛⲁⲥⲓⲟⲩ ⲁ̅; (c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, ...

, "ex officina Sabini."

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* :s:Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Dictionary/S/Sabinus, bp. of Heraclea {{Authority control 5th-century Byzantine bishops Church Fathers 5th-century Byzantine historians