Ecclesiastical History

Theodoret's history of the Church, covering the Arian controversy and its aftermath, preserving important testimony about the Cappadocian Fathers' resistance to imperial Arianism.

Preliminaries

• TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI. — Theodoret cited (Book IV, chapter 17) on the encounter between Basil and Demosthenes, prefect of the imperial kitchen

  "Theodoretus, Book IV, chapter 17, adds this: There was present also, he says, a certain man named Demosthenes, prefect of the imperial kitchen"