Heraclius

Heraclius
(575–641)
   Monarch.
   Heraclius was born in Cappadocia. He became Byzantine Emperor in 610. During his reign, he reorganised the imperial army, but, despite this, Syria and Egypt were lost to the Arabs, Edessa and Antioch to the Persians and Spain to the Visigoths. He is remembered for restoring the True Cross to Jerusalem in 614 and for trying to reach a compromise with the Monophysites by proposing that Jesus Christ had but one divine human will (the Monothelite position). In 638 he issued a statement of faith (Ecthesis) which forbade the teaching of one or more modes of activity in the person of Christ. Two councils held in Constantinople accepted this solution, but it was rejected by the Western Church which insisted that Christ had both a divine and a human will. The Ecthesis was withdrawn in 648.
   W.H.C. Frend, The Rise of the Monophysite Movement (1972).

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