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Rh heresy of Eutyches, and steadily refused to acknowledge the councils that were held against it. On the death of the chief of the Ethiopian bishops, another had been immediately appointed in his place by the Melchites, or those who professed the same faith as the emperor; but by the united interest of Theodora, of the Coptic Jacobites of Egypt, and of Baradæus, the bishop who had been appointed by the Chalcedonians was detained at the court of one of the independent chiefs, through whose dominions