Editing Nestorius (section)

== Life ==
Sources place the birth of Nestorius around 386 in the city of [[Germanicia]] in the [[Syria (Roman province)|Province of Syria, Roman Empire]] (now [[Kahramanmaraş]] in Turkey).{{sfn|Louth|2004|p=348}} A Syriac source mentioned that Nestorius was of [[Persians|Persian]] origin, while others have stated he was of Hellenised [[Antiochian]] or [[Syria (region)|Syrian]] origin.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8wElAQAAIAAJ&q=adrian+fortescue+nestorius |title=The Lesser Eastern Churches |isbn=978-0-404-02517-5 |last1=Fortescue |first1=Adrian |date=1913 |publisher=AMS Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nestorius#:~:text=Nestorius%20was%20born%20of%20Persian,asceticism%2C%20orthodoxy%2C%20and%20eloquence |title=Nestorius - Biography, Beliefs, Heresy, & Facts, Britannica}}</ref>

He received his clerical training as a pupil of [[Theodore of Mopsuestia]] in [[Antioch]]. He was living as a priest and monk in the monastery of Euprepius near the walls, and he gained a reputation for his sermons that led to his enthronement by [[Theodosius II]], as Patriarch of Constantinople, following the 428 death of [[Sisinnius I of Constantinople]].