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(died May, 381). Meletius embodies the movement toward the Neo-Nicene position of the Council of Constantinople (Constantinople/Byzantium: IV, 1), 381. He died during the Council ¶ that had honoured him as its president. He came from the circle of the Homoeans (cf. his sermon transmitted by Epiphanius of Salamis, Haer. 73,29–33), whose compromise formula in the doctrine of the Trinity had from 360 been an imperial dogma (Trinity: III, 1). As their representative, Meletius became bishop of Antioch in 360, but he was not able to h…