Editing John Chrysostom (section)

=== Exile and death ===
[[File:John Chrysostom in exile (Menologion of Basil II).jpg|thumb|The exile of John Chrysostom, scene from the 11th century [[Menologion of Basil II]].]]

The causes of John's exile are not clear, though [[Jennifer Barry]] suggests that they have to do with his connections to [[Arianism]]. Other historians, including [[Wendy Mayer]] and Geoffrey Dunn, have argued that "the surplus of evidence reveals a struggle between Johannite and anti-Johannite camps in Constantinople soon after John's departure and for a few years after his death".<ref name="barry" /> Faced with exile, John Chrysostom wrote an appeal for help to three churchmen: [[Pope Innocent I]]; [[Venerius (bishop of Milan)|Venerius]], the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan|bishop of Mediolanum]] ([[Milan]]); and [[Chromatius]], the [[list of bishops and patriarchs of Aquileia|bishop of Aquileia]].<ref>(Ep. CLV: PG LII, 702)</ref><ref>[https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20071205_en.html Vatican Library webpage] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220233950/http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20071205_en.html |date=20 December 2014}}; accessed 20 June 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.earlychurchtexts.com/public/palladius_john_chrysostom_letter_to_innocent_i.htm Appeal to the Pope] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812103106/https://earlychurchtexts.com/public/palladius_john_chrysostom_letter_to_innocent_i.htm |date=12 August 2023}}, earlychurchtexts.com; accessed 20 June 2015.</ref> In 1872, church historian William Stephens wrote:
<blockquote>The Patriarch of the Eastern Rome appeals to the great bishops of the West, as the champions of an ecclesiastical discipline which he confesses himself unable to enforce or to see any prospect of establishing. No jealousy is entertained of the Patriarch of the Old Rome by the patriarch of the New Rome. The interference of Innocent is courted, a certain primacy is accorded him, but at the same time he is not addressed as a supreme arbitrator; assistance and sympathy are solicited from him as from an elder brother, and two other prelates of Italy are joint recipients with him of the appeal.<ref>[[William Stephens (dean of Winchester)|William Stephens]], (2005) "Saint Chrysostom - His Life and Times", Elibron Classics, pp. 349–350</ref></blockquote>

Pope Innocent I protested John's banishment from Constantinople to the town of [[Göksun|Cucusus]] ([[Göksun]]) in [[Cappadocia]], but to no avail. Innocent sent a delegation to intercede on behalf of John in 405. It was led by [[Gaudentius of Brescia]]; Gaudentius and his companions, two bishops, encountered many difficulties and never reached their goal of entering Constantinople.<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06393c.htm St Gaudentius profile] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401134745/https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06393c.htm |date=1 April 2022}}, newadvent.org; accessed 20 June 2015.</ref>

John wrote letters which still held great influence in Constantinople. As a result of this, he was further exiled from Cucusus (where he stayed from 404 to 407) to [[Pitsunda|Pitiunt]] (Pityus) (in modern [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]). He never reached this destination alive, as he died at [[Comana Pontica]] (modern-day Gümenek, [[Tokat Province|Tokat]], Turkey) on 14 September 407 during the journey.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wace |first1=Henry |last2=Piercy |first2=William C. |title=A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature |date=1911 |publisher=[[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]] |location=London |pages=167–168}}</ref> He died in the Presbyterium or community of the clergy belonging to the church of Saint [[Basiliscus of Comana]].{{sfn|Butler|1821|p=297}} His last words are said to have been "{{lang|el|Δόξα τῷ Θεῷ πάντων ἕνεκεν}}" ("Glory be to God for all things").<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Schaff |first1=Philip |title=History of the Christian Church, Vol. 3 |date=1867 |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Charles Scribner and Company]] |location=New York |page=704, n.2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OBEyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA704 |access-date=27 January 2024 |archive-date=27 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127045742/https://books.google.com/books?id=OBEyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA704#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref>