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  Antioch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch was destined to rival Alexandria as the chief city of the nearer East and to be the cradle of gentile Christianity.
Antioch became the capital and court-city of the western Seleucid empire under Antiochus I, its counterpart in the east being Seleucia on the Tigris; but its paramount importance dates from the battle of Ancyra (240 BC), which shifted the Seleucid centre of gravity from Asia Minor, and led indirectly to the rise of Pergamum.
Antioch gave its name to a certain school of Christian thought, distinguished by literal interpretation of the Scriptures and insistence on the human limitations of Jesus.
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 Raymund Of Toulouse - LoveToKnow 1911
With Bohemund left behind in Antioch; with the possession of the Holy Lance to give him prestige; and with the wealth which he had at his disposal, the count of Provence now definitely began to figure as the leader of the Crusade.
As at Antioch, so at Jerusalem, he fell into strife with the new ruler; and it was only with difficulty that Godfrey was able to secure from him the possession of the Tower of David, which he had originally occupied.
In 1102 he came by sea from Constantinople to Antioch, where he was imprisoned by Tancred, regent of Antioch during the captivity of Bohemund, and only dismissed upon promising not to attempt any conquests in the country between Antioch and Acre.
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 Antioch info here at en.88of100d.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Antioch became the capital court-city of the western Seleucid union stoppered by Antiochus I, its counterpart in the east realness Seleucia on the Tigris; but its cardinal nervousness dates from the onslaught of Ancyra (240 BC), which shifted the Seleucid centre of gravity from Asia Minor, led indirectly to the growth of Pergamum.
This argenteus was struck in Antioch mint, stoppered by Constantius Chlorus.
Antioch gave its epithet to a explicit institute of Christian thought, distinguished by literal interpretation of the Scriptures insistence on the mortal limitations of Jesus.
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 John Chrysostom - Wikipedia
He was born in Antioch of high-bred parents: his father was a high ranking military officer.
His straightforward understanding of the Scriptures (in contrast to the Alexandrian tendency towards allegorical interpritation) meant that the themes of his talks were eminently social, explaining the Christian's conduct in life.
Around the time he arrived in Antioch, the bishop had to intervene with the Emperor Theodosius I on behalf of citizens who had gone on a riotous rampage in which statues of the Emperor and his family were mutilated.
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 Jerome - Wikipedia
Returning to Antioch, in 378 or 379, he was ordained by Bishop Paulinus, apparently with some unwillingness and on condition that he still continue his ascetic life.
In August 385 he returned to Antioch, accompanied by his brother Paulinianus and several friends and followed a little later by Paula and Eustochium, who had resolved to leave their patrician surroundings and to end their days in the Holy Land.
During the sojourns at Antioch and Constantinople he was mainly occupied with the Arian controversy, and especially with the schisms centering around Meletius and Lucifer.
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 Antioch - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
During the late Hellenistic period and Early Roman period, Antioch population reached its peak of over 500,000 people and was the third largest city in the world after Rome and Alexandria.
Commodus had Olympic games celebrated at Antioch, and in 266 the town was suddenly raided by the Persians, who slew many in the theatre.
A statue in the Vatican and a silver statuette in the British Museum perpetuate the type of its great patron goddess and civic symbol, the Tyche (Fortune) of Antioch--a majestic seated figure, crowned with the ramparts of Antioch's walls, with the river Orontes as a youth swimming under her feet.
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Antioch
In the Orontes, north of the city, lay a large island, and on this Seleucus II Callinicus began a third walled "city,"?title=which was finished by Antiochus III.
The nicknames which they gave to their later kings were Aramaic; and, except Apollo and Daphne, the great divinities of north Syria seem to have remained essentially native, such as the "Persian Artemis"?title=of Meroe and Atargatis of Hierapolis Bambyce.
We may infer, from its epithet, "Golden,"?title=that the external appearance of Antioch was magnificent; but the city needed constant restoration owing to the seismic disturbances to which the district has always been peculiarly liable.
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 Antioch New Homes
Antioch was founded just prior to the United States Civil War by a small Protestant sect known as the Church of Christ, from which it derived its biblical name.
Antioch's government is made up of a mayor and six trustees elected at large, with staggered terms.
Antioch has a small police force, which has recently moved into a new freestanding police station, across the street from the old tank memorial and down the block from the village hall and seat of government.
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 Antioch (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antioch is often an Anglicization of the Greek name Αντιόχεια (transliterated as Antiocheia or Antiochia); see also Antiochia for further places with this name.
Antioch College, a university in Yellow Springs, Ohio
This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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 Antioch - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Antioch was called the Queen of the East, lying on the high-road between the East and the West, and accordingly a busy centre of trade.
Thirteen years later, it was captured by the Crusaders during the First Crusade, and became the capital of an independent Principality of Antioch (see Siege of Antioch).
For instance Pisidian Antioch in Central-West Turkey is where Saint Paul gave his first sermon to the Gentiles.
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 Antioch Dodge
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As Christianityspread, Antioch became the seat of one of the four original patriarchates,along with Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Rome.
For several centuries Antioch was an important city in the Roman Empire.The emperor Aurelian erected several magnificent public structures, and later theemperor Constantius II erected an octogonal cathedral, which sufferedin the earthquake of AD 526.
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 Articles - Jerome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Invited there originally to the synod of 382 held for the purpose of ending the schism of Antioch, he made himself indispensable to the pope, and took a prominent place in his councils.
During the sojourns at Antioch and Constantinople he was mainly occupied with the Arian controversy, and especially with the schisms centering around Meletius of Antioch and Lucifer Calaritanus.
Two letters to Pope Damasus (15 and 16) complain of the conduct of both parties at Antioch, the Meletians and Paulinians, who had tried to draw him into their controversy over the application of the terms ´´ousia´´ and ´´hypostasis´´ to the Trinity.
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 Plotinus oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Alexander the Great Antioch was destined to rival Alexandria in Egypt as the chief city of the nearer East and to be the cradle of gentile Christianity.
Between 252 and 300 A.D. ten assemblies of the church were held at Antioch and it became the seat of one of the four original patriarchates, along with Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Rome (see Pentarchy).
Leo In 638, during the reign of Heraclius, Antioch passed into Saracen hands, and (as Arabic أنطاكيّة Antākiyyah) decayed apace for more than 300 years; but in 969 it was recovered for the Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas by Michael Burza and Peter the Eunuch.
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 Jerome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In any case he seems to have abstained for a considerable time from the study of the classics and to have plunged deeply into that of the Bible, under the impulsion of Apollinaris of Laodicea, then teaching in Antioch and not yet suspected of heresy.
Among other duties he undertook the revision of the text of the Latin Bible on the basis of the Greek New Testament and the Septuagint, in order to put an end to the marked divergences in the current western texts.
During the sojourns at Antioch and Constantinople he was mainly occupied with the Arian controversy, and especially with the schisms centering around Meletius and Lucifer Calaritanus.
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 New Homes Antioch
Antioch is a city located in Contra Costa County, California.
Antioch is located at 37°59'33" North, 121°48'8" West (37.992421, -121.802225).
Antioch is a suburban village located in Lake County, Illinois.
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 Flavian - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Flavian dynasty was a series of three Roman Emperors - Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian - who ruled from 69, the "Year of the Four Emperors", to 96.
Flavian was later the name of several bishops of Constantinople and Antioch:
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Christian - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Christian is primarily an adjective, describing an object associated with Christianity, but is also frequently used as noun in the same sense (ie, a person associated with Christianity).
Sacraments aside, the concept of grace is still uniquely Christian: the idea, or as some call it a mystery, that spiritual wholeness comes only as a result of a gift.
Some famous Christian teachers include Paul of Tarsus, Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Augustine of Hippo, Athanasius of Alexandria, Saint Patrick, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, and C.S. Lewis.
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 CalendarHome.com - All Saints - Calendar Encyclopedia
Common commemorations by several churches of the deaths of martyrs began to be celebrated in the 4th century.
The first trace of a general celebration is attested in Antioch on the Sunday after Pentecost.
This custom is also referred to in the 74th homily of John Chrysostom (407) and is maintained to the present day in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Christian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation "Christ", which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth.
The first known usage of this term can be found in the New Testament of the Bible, in {{bibleverseActs11:2631}}: "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." (Gr.
The term was first used to denote those known or perceived to be disciples of Christ.
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 Eusebius of Caesarea Biography,info
For instance, in the dispute with Eustathius of Antioch, who opposed the growing influence of Origen and his practice of an allegorical exegesis of scripture, seeing in his theology the roots of Arianism, Eusebius, an admirer of Origen, was reproached by Eustathius for deviating from the Nicene faith, who was charged in turn with Sabellianism.
Eustathius was accused, condemned and deposed at a synod in Antioch.
Afterward, the persecutions under Diocletian and Galerius directed his attention to the martyrs of his own time and the past, and this led him to the history of the whole Church and finally to the history of the world, which, to him, was only a preparation for ecclesiastical history.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> patriarch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Patriarch of Antioch, head of the Orthodox Church of Antioch
The Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, head of the Syrian Catholic Church
The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch, head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church; united to it are two now titular patriarachal sees of the Melkite-Greek rite (both in Middle Eastern Pentarchy cities):
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 Catholicism - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
The early Christian Church came to be organized under the three patriarchs of Rome, Alexandria and Antioch, to which later were added the patriarch of Constantinople and of Jerusalem.
Paul, who, all agreed, were martyred and buried in Rome, Constantinople had become the residence of the Emperor, and the churches at Antioch, and Alexandria were all older than Rome.
Antioch furthermore was considered to have been the see of St.
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 City Of Antioch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Patriarch of Antioch is the traditional title carried by the Bishop of Antioch...
In the narrow valley between the Amanus and Cassius ranges, stood at one time the city of Antioch, which flourished from the 18th to the beginning of the 12th century BCE, when it was suddenly destroyed.
Antioch is one of California's oldest cities, with a burgeoning population of professionals and skilled workers.
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 459 oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Antioch (disambiguation) The city of Antioch on the Orontes (modern Antakya; Greek Αντιοχεια ἡ επι Δαφνη) is located in what is now Turkey.
Alexander is said to have camped on the site of Antioch, and dedicated an altar to Zeus Bottiaeus, which lay in the northwest of the future city.
The latter is said to have appealed to augury to determine the exact site of his projected foundation; but less fantastic considerations went far to settle it.
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 Christian - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
For other uses of the term Christian, see Christian (disambiguation).
According to the New Testament, those who followed Jesus as his disciples were first called Christians by those who did not share their faith, in the city of Antioch.
Christian, Usage of the word, History, Early times, The first millennium, Medieval times, Modern times, See also, External links and Christianity.
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 AllSaints peee.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
For other meanings see All Saints (disambiguation) and All Hallows (disambiguation) The festival of All Saints, also sometimes known as "All Hallows," or "Hallowmas" ("hallow" meaning "holy," and "mas" meaning "Mass"), is a feast celebrated in their honour.
The Eastern Orthodoxy Church's All Saints is the first Sunday after Pentecost and as such marks the close of the Easter season.
This custom is also referred to in the 74th homily of John Chrysostom (407) and is maintained to the present day in the Eastern Orthodoxy Church.
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