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 pas, Bishop of Gaza, and Lucius, Bishop of Adrianople, to their Sees, of which they had been deprived by the Arians. “When the Bishop of Rome ” says Sozomen, “ had heard the accusations against them, and had found that these Bishops all adhered to the Faith of the Council of Nice, he received them to his Communion, and as, by the Dignity of his See, he was charged with the care of all, he reinstated each one in his respective Church.” Hist. Eccl. L. 111. c.7. Socrates also states, “that Athanasius, Paul, Asclepas, Marcellus, and Lucius, went to Rome and exposed their case to Julius, Bishop of that city. He, by virtue of the prerogative of his See, sending them with letters full of vigour, to the Bishops of the East, restored to each of them his respective See.” Hist. Eccl. L. 11. c. 15.-It was by the supreme Authority and prerogative of the See of Rome, that this jurisdiction was exercised over 'Bishops and Patriarchs in Asia and Egypt.

LIBERIUS, POPE. —When Eustathius, Bishop of Sebaste, in Armenia, had been condemned and deposed by a Council of Arians, held at Melitina, in 360, he appealed to Pope Liberius. The Pope restored him to his See, after he had complied with the proposals made to him. Eustathius produced the letters of the Pope before the Bishops assembled in Council at Thyana, in Cappadocia; and in consequence, without any question about the authority of Pope Liberius, he was put in possession of his Church. This is stated by St. Basil the Great. Ep. cclxiii. ad Epis. Occid. T. 111. p. 406. See p. 152.

ST. INNOCENT, POPE. -In 403, St. Chrysostom, Patri-