Acacius of Caesarea [SEP] position held
Acacius of Caesarea
Acacius of Caesarea in Greek Ἀκάκιος Mονόφθαλμος (died 366) was a Christian bishop, the pupil and successor in the Palestinian see of Caesarea of Eusebius AD 340, whose life he wrote. He is remembered chiefly for his bitter opposition to St. Cyril of Jerusalem and for the part he was afterwards enabled to play in the more acute stages of the Arian controversy. In the famous twenty-first oration of St. Gregory Nazianzen, the author speaks of him as being "the tongue of the Arians".
- Philicadus was a member of the Arian faction that signed the profession of faith of Acacius of Caesarea at a synod held in Seleucia in 359.
- Diogenes is mentioned in the acts of the Second Council of Constantinople in 553.
- Nicetas was at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787
- Constantinus was at the Council of Constantinople (869).
Ecclesiastical history Titular Sees.
Augustopolis in Phrygia is today included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees since the diocese's nominal restoration in the