Nestorius ordained bishop of Constantinople
The Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes records under the consulship of Felix and Taurus (AD 428; OCR 'PELIOIS ET TAVRI') that Nestorius, born at Antioch, whom it describes as a man of sufficient eloquence but little wisdom, was ordained bishop from presbyter with strong support from the people of Constantinople.
What this does and does not establish
A Latin chronicle written at Constantinople c. 518-534, used through Mommsen's 1894 edition (MGH AA 11) as Internet Archive OCR text (page images not checked); the English is an AI working translation. OCR 'iiatus', "vii'", 'cloquentiae', 'sapicntiac' and 'amniodum' read as natus, vir, eloquentiae, sapientiae and admodum; the 's' before 'ex' is a margin line number. Mommsen's apparatus reports 'authiochiae' and 'eloquentia' in S and 'patrum' for 'parum' in T (earlier editions 'parum habens'). The judgement on his character is the chronicler's own; no day is given. The retained passage does not explicitly establish the site of the relevant act. No occurrence region is assigned.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- No region assigned This collection has not fixed where the act took place. It is not a statement that the place is unknown.
- Theme
- Culture and knowledge
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- Indiction/consul heading (OCR line 6274): '428 XI. PELIOIS ET TAVRI.'
- How we use it
- Placed in the consular year under which Marcellinus enters it (as numbered by the editor). Consular years run from 1 January; entries are not dated within the year, and the chronicle can misplace events.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Consular year to AD 428 per the heading index marcellinus-headings.json (one indiction/consul heading per year in order, indiction expected 11, read 11), matching the AD years Mommsen prints in the margin.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon (Latin), ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH Auctores antiquissimi 11 (Chronica minora II), 1894
Marcellinus Comes (6th-century, Constantinople); critical edition by Theodor Mommsen (1894)
Quoted text (Latin)
Nestorius Antiochia iiatus, vii' satis
quidem cloquentiae, sapicntiac vero parum,
Constantinopolitanis amniodum adnitentibus
s ex presbytero episcopus ordinatus est.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Nestorius, born at Antioch, a man indeed of sufficient eloquence but of little wisdom, with the people of Constantinople strongly pressing for it, was ordained bishop from presbyter.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Marcellinus Comes, Chronicon, ed. Th. Mommsen, MGH AA 11 (1894), Internet Archive OCR text. English renderings are AI working translations from the Latin.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
This is a corrected version of this record. During research, before this release, an earlier version was withdrawn after independent review and replaced by this one.
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