where he arrived in the Latter end of the Year 339. After his Arrival the Bishop of _Rome_ dispatched _Elpidius_ and _Philoxenes_, Two of his Presbyters, with Letters to the _Eusebians_, summoning them to the Council, which their Deputies had demanded, and acquainting them with the Time and Place in which it was to be held[677]. The Place was _Rome_, and the Time the Month of _June_ 341. according to the most probable Opinion. [Sidenote: _They decline appearing at the Council of_ Rome; _assemble one at_ Antioch; _and there depose_ Athanasius;] The other Bishops assembled at the Time appointed; but the _Eusebians_, instead of appearing at the Council of _Rome_, which had been convened at their Request, assembled one at _Antioch_, and there, without waiting for the Determination of _Julius_, whom they had chosen for their Judge, deposed _Athanasius_, and appointed _Gregory_ Bishop of _Alexandria_ in his room; nay, they even detained the Deputies sent by the Pope till the Time appointed for the Meeting of the Council was expired, that they might afterwards plead, as they did, the Shortness of the Term prescribed for them to meet in[678]. [Sidenote: _who is declared innocent in the Council of_ Rome.] In the Council of _Rome_ the Cause of _Athanasius_ was examined, and he, after the strictest Scrutiny, declared innocent with one Voice by the Fifty Bishops who composed it[679]; so that _Julius_ and the rest continued to communicate with him as a Bishop[680], which was declaring him unlawfully deposed. Several other Bishops, who had been deposed by the _Arians_, came to lay their Complaints before the Council, and, among the rest, _Marcellus_ Bishop of _Ancyra_, and _Paul_ Bishop of _Constantinople_. The former had been condemned as an Heretic by a Council held at _Constantinople_ in 336. and consisting intirely of _Arian_ Bishops. As nobody appeared against him during the Fifteen Months he continued at _Rome_, and the Declaration of his Faith, which, at the Request of _Julius_, he gave under his own Hand, was judged quite orthodox by the Pope and the Council, he was readmitted to the Communion of the Catholic Church[681]. But whether they did not judge too favourably of his Belief, may be very much questioned: _Epiphanius_ at least was no-ways satisfied with it[682]. And truly it would be no easy Task to clear him from the Heresy of _Sabellius_ and _Samosatenus_, denying the Trinity of the Divine Persons[683]: but to examine so perplexed and intricate a Point, would be foreign to my Purpose. [Sidenote: _Neither_ Athanasius _nor any other Bishop restored by_ Julius.] _Socrates_[684] and _Sozomen_[685] write, that _Julius_, by the Authority of his See, reinstated all the Bishops who had been displaced by the _Arians_; that he supported and defended their Innocence with Letters full of Vigour and Liberty; severely reprimanded those who had deposed them; summoned some of them to appear at _Rome_, in a limited Time, to justify their Conduct; and,