Maris (bishop)
4th-century Christian Arian leader From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maris (Greek: Μάρις) was a bishop of Chalcedon in the 4th century and a prominent backer of Arianism.[1]
He is best known to history as an attendee present at the Council of Nicaea in 325.[2][3][4] He was one of the Arian Bishops at that Council. He eventually signed the Nicene Creed with the other Arian supporters, Zopyrus of Barca, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea.[5][6][7][8] He was exiled with the other three Arian bishops.
He is also notable for confronting the anti-Christian emperor Julian the Apostate in 362 after going blind - in reply to Julian telling him: "Thy Galilean God will not heal thy sight." He replied: "I thank God for depriving me of the power of beholding thy face."[9]
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