Editing Pope Felix III (section)

==Eutychian heresy==
Eutyches was an [[archimandrite]] at Constantinople. In his opposition to [[Nestorianism]] he seemed to have taken the opposite view to extremes.
In an effort to defuse controversy regarding the teachings of [[Eutyches]], in 482 [[Emperor Zeno]], at the suggestion of Patriarch [[Acacius of Constantinople]], had issued an edict known as the [[Henoticon]]. The edict was intended as a bond of reconciliation between Catholics and Eutychians, but it caused greater conflicts than ever, and split the Church of the East into three or four parties.<ref name=catholic/> The Henotikon endorsed the condemnations of Eutyches and Nestorius made at Chalcedon and explicitly approved the twelve anathemas of [[Cyril of Alexandria]], but in attempting to appease both sides of the dispute, avoided any definitive statement on whether Christ had one or two natures.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

Felix's first act was to repudiate the Henoticon. He also addressed a letter of remonstrance to Acacius. The latter proved refractory and sentence of deposition was passed against Acacius.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

As Catholics spurned Zeno's edict, the emperor had driven the patriarchs of Antioch and Alexandria from their sees. [[Peter the Fuller]] deposed [[Martyrius of Antioch]] and assumed the [[See of Antioch]] in 470. [[Peter III of Alexandria|Peter Mongus]] took the [[See of Alexandria]]. In his first synod, Felix excommunicated Peter the Fuller. In 484, Felix also excommunicated Peter Mongus, an act that brought about a schism between East and West that was not healed until 519.<ref name=catholic/>