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== Resistance to Nestorianism ==
The fiercest opposition to Nestorianism came from St [[Cyril of Alexandria]], a theologian from the Alexandria Alexandrian school. In a series of epistles and letters to [[Nestorius]], Emperor Theodore II, and Empress Eudoxia, St Cyril outlined the Orthodox teaching and accused Nestorius of heresy. St Cyril then wrote to Pope Celestine of Rome about the teaching of Nestorius.
In 430, Pope Celestine called a council at Rome, which condemned Nestorius and called for him to be deposed. Pope Celestine sent copies of the council's decision to St Cyril of Alexandria, who also called a council in Alexandria in 430. At this council, St Cyril issued his famous 12 [[anathema]]s against Nestorius, which stated:
* If anyone does not confess that Emmanuel is God in truth, and therefore that the holy Holy Virgin is the Mother of God (for she bore in a fleshly way the Word of God become flesh), let him be anathema.
* If anyone does not confess that the Word from God the Father has been united by hypostasis with the flesh and is one Christ with his own flesh, and is therefore God and man together, let him be anathema.
* If anyone divides in the one Christ the hypostases after the union, joining them only by a conjunction of dignity or authority or power, and not rather by a coming together in a union by nature, let him be anathema.
* If anyone distributes between the two persons or hypostases the expressions used either in the gospels Gospels or in the apostolic writings, whether they are used by the holy writers of Christ or by him about himself, and ascribes some to him as to a man, thought of separately from the Word from God, and others, as befitting God, to him as to the Word from God the Father, let him be anathema.
* If anyone dares to say that Christ was a God-bearing man and not rather God in truth, being by nature one Son, even as "the Word became flesh,", and is made partaker of blood and flesh precisely like us, let him be anathema.
* If anyone says that the Word from God the Father was the God or master of Christ, and does not rather confess the same both God and man, the Word having become flesh, according to the scriptures, let him be anathema.