While these things were thus proceeding, a question again arose concerning the election of a bishop. For many sought Philip the presbyter, who had been ordained deacon by the blessed John surnamed Chrysostom, and had written many volumes against the emperor Julian the Apostate. But others sought Proclus the presbyter, whom Sisinnius had ordained bishop for Cyzicus — Proclus who, before he could set out for Cyzicus, found that the citizens of that city, anticipating him, had ordained for themselves the monk Dalmatius as bishop, since this had seemed to be granted to Atticus, Sisinnius's predecessor, alone. But it displeased the nobles of the palace that this should be done — which indeed was afterward done.
For Proclus remained without a church of his own, who nevertheless flourished greatly at Constantinople in ecclesiastical doctrine. And when four months had passed after the condemnation of Nestorius, Maximian was ordained bishop — a monk indeed by way of life, but a presbyter by rank, steadfast indeed in the true faith, but unlearned in speech, and he chose rather to live in quiet. 'Since to Atticus the predecessor.' — That which the people of Cyzicus had conferred upon Atticus, as upon an arbiter freely chosen for the discord that had arisen among them, Sisinnius the successor of Atticus tried to claim for himself by right of the see; wherefore the people of Cyzicus resisted at that time, and indeed rightly, yet they gave way after the Council of Chalcedon, the power of the rulers favoring their New Rome prevailing.
'Maximian is ordained bishop.' — On the 25th of October, which was a Sunday in this year 431. Now ordination took place on Sundays in the Western Church, as is gathered from canon 49 of the Code of the African Church; but in the Eastern Church this custom was not so religiously observed; for Chrysostom is recorded as ordained on the 27th of January in the year 398, when the Sunday letter was C, and so the twenty-seventh day of January fell on the fourth day of the week: on the same fourth day Nestorius was ordained in the year 428, the Sunday letter being AG.