A Disputed Succession

Οἱ δὲ ἐν Κωνσταντίνου πόλει τὴν ἐκτεθεῖσαν ἐν Νικαίᾳ δόξαν ζηλώσαντες, εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἤγαγον Παῦλον. Ἐν τῳ αὐτῷ δὲ συλλαμβανομένων τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐναντίου πλήθους, ἐν ἑτέρᾳ ἐκκλησίᾳ συνελθόντες οἱ ἀμφὶ θεόγνιον τὸν Νικαίας έπίσκοπον καὶ Θεόδωρον τὸν Ἡρακλείας, ἑτεροί τε οἱ τὰ τούτων φρονοῦντες, οἱ ἔτυχον ἐνδημοῦντες, Μακεδόνιον ἐχειροτόνησαν Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐπίσκοπον. Ἐντεῦθέν τε συχαὶ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν έγένοντο στάσεις, πολέμοις ἐμφερεῖς. Εἰς ἑαυτὸ γὰρ ἑκατέρωθεν τοῦ πλήθους συμπίπτοντος, πλεῖστοι διώλλυτο· καὶ ταραχῆς ἡ πόλις ἀναπλεως ἦν· ὡς καὶ Βασιλέα τότε ἐν Ἀντοοχείᾳ ὄντα, τάδε μαθεῖν, καὶ πρὸς ὀργὴν κινηθέντα, προστάξαι πάλιν ἀπελαύνεσθαι Παῦλον. Διηκονεῖτο δὲ τοῖς Βασιλέως προστάγμασιν Ἑρμογένης, ὁ τὴν ἱππικὴν δύναμιν έπιτετραμμενος στρατηγός·ὅς ἐπὶ Θρᾴκην τότε ἀποσταλεὶς, παριὼν διὰ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, ἐβιάζετο Παύλον διὰ στρατιωτῶν ἐξελάσαι τῆς ἐκκλησίας. Ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸ πλῆθος οῦ συνεχώρει, πῆ δὲ καὶ ἠμύνετο· βιαιότερόν τε ἐπεχείρουν οἱ στρατιῶται ἐπιτελεῖν τὸ προσταχθὲν, καταλαβόντες τὴν Ἑρμογένους οἰκίαν οἱ στρατιῶται ἐνέπρησαν, καὶ αὐτὸν ἀναιροῦσι· καὶ σχοινίον ἐξάψαντες εἰλκον διὰ τῆς πόλεως. Ἑρμείος Σωζομενός, Ἐκκλησιαστίκη Ἱστορία

Those in the city of Constantinople who firmly adhered to the opinion of Nicea led Paul to the church. At the same time the multitude who opposed them gathered together in another church, among whom were supporters of the bishops Theognis of Nicea, and Theodore of Heraclea, and others of similar opinion who chanced to be be there, and they made Macedonius bishop of Constantinople. On account of this there was frequent unrest in the city, even to the point of war, for forming into crowds the people attacked one another and many died. The city was filled with tumult and the Emperor Constantius who was then at Antioch, learning of it, was moved to anger, and again decreed the expulsion of Paul. Hermogenes, who was general of the cavalry, endeavored to implement this Imperial command, he who had been sent to Thrace and who would thus pass Constantinople. He planned, by means of his troops, to expel Paul from the church by force, but the people did not yield but rather fought, and the soldiers, having tried to fulfill their order, turned to greater violence, and coming upon the house of Hermogenes, they set fire to it, killing him, and binding a rope around him, they dragged him through the city. Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History