the founder of the heretical sect of the Eutychians, was a presbyter and abbot at Constantinople, and first came into notice at the time of the Nestorian controversy. Nestorius (though he disavowed the charge) was accused of teaching "that the divine nature was not incarnated in, but only attendant on, Jesus; being superadded to his human nature after the latter was completely formed." Eutyches, in the zeal of his opposition to this doctrine, went to the opposite extreme, declaring that in Christ there was only one nature, that of the incarnate Word, and that his human had been absorbed by his divine nature. A council, convened at Constantinople in 448 (the year in which this heresy was broached) condemned Eutyches, who appealed to a general council called in 449 by the Emperor Theodosius at Ephesus. The scenes of shameful violence with which this council was disgraced gained for it the title of "the synod of robbers." Eutyches was acquitted; his opponents sought safety in flight; and Flavianus, bishop of Constantinople, was scourged by the soldiers who had been stationed in the hall to keep order. On the death of Theodosius, his successor, Marcian, convoked a council at Chalcedon (the fourth ecumenical council of the Latin Church), which annulled the proceedings of the Ephesian assembly, condemned the heresy of Eutyches, and degraded him from the priestly office. Eutyches is believed to have died in exile. The Eutychian heresy was kept alive and fostered by Eudocia, the widow of Theodosius, and sometimes broke out in scenes of violence that required to be checked by an armed force. Under the title of Monophysites the disciples of Eutyches continued to propagate their doctrines, though with no remarkable success, till the sixth century, when Jacob Baradaeus (who died bishop of Edessa in 588) gave a powerful impetus to their extension. Under the name of Jacobites the Eutychians constitute at this moment a very numerous church, whose principal adherents lie among the Copts and Armenians. See Monophysites and Monothelites.