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Acacius (died 489) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 471 to 489. Acacius was practically the first prelate throughout the Eastern Orthodoxy and renowned for ambitious participation in the Chalcedonian controversy.Acacius advised the Byzantine emperor Zeno to issue the Henotikon edict in 482 in which Nestorius and Eutyches were condemned the twelve chapters of Cyril of Alexandria accepted and the Chalcedon Definition ignored.