_Chrysostom_, the celebrated Bishop of _Constantinople_, having been unjustly deposed in 403 and driven from his See by _Theophilus_ Bishop of _Alexandria_, and the Council _ad Quercum_, or at _the Oak_, near _Chalcedon_, had, upon his Return to _Constantinople_, insisted upon a Council being summoned, to make his Innocence the more plainly appear to the World. This _Theophilus_, and the Bishops of his Party, not only strenuously opposed, but, by the great Interest they had at Court, prevailed upon the Emperor _Arcadius_ to drive him from _Constantinople_ a Second time, and banish him to _Cucusus_, an inhospitable Place in _Cilicia_. The News of these last Proceedings had not yet reached _Rome_, when _Theophilus_ sent one of his Lectors with a Letter to _Innocent_, acquainting him, that he had deposed _Chrysostom_. As, in this Letter, _Theophilus_ observed an intire Silence with respect to the Motives that had prompted him to take such a Step, _Innocent_ prudently forbore returning him an Answer. There happened to be then at _Rome_ a Deacon of the Church of _Constantinople_, who, hearing what _Theophilus_ had written, went immediately, and warned _Innocent_ to be upon his Guard, intreating him, at the same time, not to proceed but with the utmost Caution, in so nice and important an Affair, and assuring him, that the Truth could not remain long undiscovered. Accordingly, in Three Days, _Pansovius_, and Three other Bishops, arrived at _Rome_, with Three Letters for _Innocent_; _viz._ one from _Chrysostom_ himself, another from the Bishops of his Communion, and the Third from the whole Clergy of _Constantinople_. _Chrysostom_, in his Letter, which is still to be seen in his Works, and in those of _Palladius_, who writ the History of his Persecution, after giving _Innocent_ an Account of the Storm his Enemies had raised against him, intreats him to declare such wicked Proceedings void and null, to pronounce all who had any Share in them punishable, according to the Ecclesiastical Laws, and to continue to him the Marks of his Charity and Communion. In the Title and Close of the Letter, he addresses himself to one, but every-where else to more Persons, the Letter having been written, as appears from the Copy in _Palladius_[1413], not to _Innocent_ alone, but to him, to _Venerius_ of _Milan_, and _Chromatius_ of _Aquileia_, Bishops of the Three chief Sees in the West. [Sidenote: Innocent_’s Answer to_ Chrysostom_’s Letter_.]