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September 15, 2011 Eutyches was an archimandrite and heretic who
lived in the fifth century at a monastery near Constantinople. A
staunch foe of Nestorianism he took an extreme view in the
opposite direction, to a form of monophysitism called
Eutychianism, during the Christological controversies of the
fifth century. His nonnegotiable position ended in his being
anathematize by both the Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian sides
of the controversy. Little is known of the early life of
Eutyches. He is believed to have been born about year 380 and
was an archimandrite at a monastery near Constantinople. His
name first appeared in 428 as one of the first of those who
started the process of complaints against Nestorius‘s teaching.
In 431, he attended the Council of Ephesus at which he was in
vehement opposition to the teachings of Nestorius of
Constantinople. Nestorius asserted an explanation of the natures
of Christ such that the Virgin Mary could not be