Image:Stathanasius.jpgic Icon of St Athanasius]] The '''First Synod of Tyre''' was convened by the Emperor Constantine I in 335 to judge the case against Saint Athanasius, the Patriarch of Alexandria. Athanasius had outmaneuvered the Arians at the First_Council_of_Nicaea and they remained his enemy. After he succeeded to the see of Alexandria, they had accused him of, among other things, immoral conduct, illegally taxing the Egyptian people, supporting rebels to the Imperial throne, and even murdering a Bishop and keeping his severed hand for use in magical rites. In 334 Athanasius was summoned before a synod in Caesarea, which he did not attend. A new Synod then convened the next year in Tyre, sanctioned by Constantine. Eusebius_of_Caesarea presided over the assembly, and about 310 members attended. Athanasius appeared this time with forty-eight Egyptian bishops. The Synod condemned Athanasius, but he fled to Constantinople and confronted the Emperor personally. Constantine personally exonerated him. Athanasius's enemies soon got the better of him, however, by telling the Emperor that Athanasius was planning to interfere with the grain supply to Constantinople from Egypt. Constantine thereupon reversed himself, and exiled the bishop to Trier. The bishops from this synod soon thereafter convinced Constantine to exile Marcellus_of_Ancyra, another strong anti-Arian. {{Christian-theology-stub}} {{catholic}}