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title: "Letters and Select Works"
author: "Basil of Caesarea"
translator: "Blomfield Jackson"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Church Fathers"
section: 3 of 102
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cite: "Basil of Caesarea, tr. Blomfield Jackson, Letters and Select Works, section 3. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/basil-of-caesarea-letters-and-select-works/3/"
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# Letters and Select Works

*Basil of Caesarea, tr. Blomfield Jackson*

Basil on the Holy Spirit, the six days of creation, and his letters.

## 3. Chronological Table · 2 of 2

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[¶0] Council of Tyana.

[¶1] 368. Semiarian Council in Caria. Famine in Cappadocia

[¶2] 369. Death of Emmelia. Basil visits Samosata.

[¶3] 370. Death of Eusebius of Cæsarea

[¶4] Election and consecration of Basil to the see of Cæsarea.

[¶5] Basil makes visitation tour.

[¶6] 371. Basil threatened by arian bishops and by modestus.

[¶7] Valens, travelling slowly from Nicomedia to Cæsarea, arrives at the end of the year.

[¶8] 372. Valens attends great service at Cæsarea on the Epiphany, Jan. 6.

[¶9] Interviews between Basil and Valens.

[¶10] Death of Galates.

[¶11] Valens endows Ptochotrophium and quits Cæsarea.

[¶12] Basil visits Eusebius at Samosata.

[¶13] Claim of Anthimus to metropolitan dignity at Tyana.

[¶14] Basil resists Anthimus.

[¶15] Basil Forces Gregory of Nazianzus to be consecrated bishop of Sasima, and consecrates his brother Gregory to Nyssa. Consequent estrangement of Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus.

[¶16] Basil in Armenia. Creed signed by Eustathius.

[¶17] 373. St. Epiphanius writes the “Ancoratus.”

[¶18] Death of Athanasius.

[¶19] Basil visited by Jovinus of Perrha, and by Sanctissimus of Antioch.

[¶20] 374. Death of Auxentius and consecration of Ambrose at Milan.

[¶21] Basil writes the “De Spiritu Sancto.”

[¶22] Eusebius of Samosata banished to Thrace.

[¶23] Death of Gregory, bp. of Nazianzus, the elder.

[¶24] 375. Death of Valentinian. Gratian and Valentinian II. emperors.

[¶25] Synod of Illyria, and Letter to the Orientals.

[¶26] Semiarian Council of Cyzicus.

[¶27] Demosthenes harasses the Catholics.

[¶28] Gregory of Nyssa deposed.

[¶29] 376. Synod of Iconium.

[¶30] Open denunciation of Eustathius by Basil.

[¶31] 378. Death of Valens, Aug. 9.

[¶32] Eusebius of Samosata and Meletius return from exile.

[¶33] 379. Death of Basil, Jan. 1.

[¶34] Theodosius Augustus.