In the Time of _Dionysius_ was held the famous Council of _Antioch_, which condemned and deposed _Paul_ Bishop of that City, who denied the Distinction of the Divine Persons, and the Divinity of _Christ_. Of the Deposition of _Paul_, and the Election of _Damnus_, who was placed in his room, Notice was immediately given to the whole Church, by a Synodal Letter addressed to _Dionysius_ Bishop of _Rome_, and to _Maximus_, who had succeeded the great _Dionysius_ in the See of _Alexandria_[475]. And here it will not be foreign to my Purpose to observe, that the Bishop of _Antioch_ was summoned to appear before the Council, and not at the supreme Tribunal erected by _Baronius_ at _Rome_; [Sidenote: _without the Consent or Knowlege of the Bishop of_ Rome.] that he was condemned and deposed without the consent or Concurrence, nay, and without the Knowlege of the sovereign Judge residing at _Rome_; that he did not appeal to him, which he certainly would have done, as he was a Man of unparalleled Impudence and Ambition, had such a Custom obtained in those Days; and lastly, that the Fathers of the Council writ to the Bishop of _Rome_ in the same Manner as they did to other Bishops, letting him know, that for the future he was to communicate with _Damnus_, and not with _Paul_. All this is manifest from the Account which St. _Basil_ gives us of that Council[476]. And yet _Baronius_ brings in that Father, even on this Occasion, as an Evidence for the Papal Supremacy[N9]. ----- Footnote N9: