10,11. Theodoe. : H. E. v. 3, 35. SooEATEs: H. E. iii. 9 ; v. 9, 17. Comp. Walch : Ketzerbistorie, part iv. p. 410 sqq. The Meletian schism at Antioch ' was interwoven with the Arian controversies, and lasted through more than half a century. In 361 the majority of the Antiochian church elected as bishop Meletius, who had formerly been an Arian, and was ordained by this party, but after his election professed the Ni- cene orthodoxy. He was a man of rich persuasive eloquence, and of a sweet and amiable disposition, which endeared him to the Catholics and Arians. But his doctrinal indecision offended the extremists of both parties. When he professed the Nicene faith, the Arians deposed him in council, sent him into exile, ' His opponents also charged him with too great familiarity with Roman ladies. The same accusation, however, was made against his friend Jerome, on account of his zeal for the spread of the ascetic life among the Roman matrons, * Comp. on Damasus his works, edited by Merenda, Rome, 1754, several epis- tles of Jerome, Tillemont, torn. viii. 386, and Butler's Lives of the Saiats, sub Dec. 11th. * Not to be confounded witli the Meletian schism at Alexandria, which arose in the previous period. Comprvol. i.§ 115 (p! 451); § 73. THE MELE'riAN SCHISM AT AJJTIOCH. 373 and transferred liis bishopric to Enzoius, who had formerly been banished with Arius.' The Catholics disowned Enzoius, but split among themselves ; the majority adhered to the ex- iled Meletins, while the old and more strictly orthodox party, who had hitherto been known as the Eustathians, and with whom Athanasius communicated, would not recognize a bishop of Arian consecration, though Catholic in belief, and elected PATJLmus, a presbyter of high character, who was ordained counter-bishop by Lucifer of Calaris.^ The doctrinal difference between the Meletians and the old Nicenes consisted chiefly in this : that the latter acknowledged three hypostases in the divine trinity, the former only three prosopa ; the one laying the stress on the triplicity of the divine essence, the other on its unity. The dthodox orientals declared for Meletius, the occidentals 6 and Egyptians for Paulinus, as legitimate bishop of Antioch. Meletius, on returning from exile under the protection of Gratian, proposed to Paulinus that they should unite their flocks, and that the survivor of them should superintend the church alone ; but Paulinus declined, since the canons forbade him to take as a colleague one who had been ordained by Arians.' Then the military authorities put Meletius in posses- sion of the cathedral, which had been in the hands of Euzoius. Meletius presided, as senior bishop, in the second ecumenical council (381), but died a few days after the opening of it — a saint outside the communion of Rome. His funeral was im- posing : lights were borne before the embalmed corpse, and psalms sung iu divers languages, and these honors were re- peated in all the cities