{{Short description|4th-century Christian Arian leader}} '''Maris''' (Greek: Μάρις) was a bishop of Chalcedon in the 4th century and a prominent backer of Arianism.<ref>[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/wace/biodict.html?term=Maris,%20bp.%20of%20Chalcedon ''Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies.''].</ref>
He is best known to history as an attendee present at the Council of Nicaea in 325.<ref>Gelzer, Patrum Nicaenorum nomina, 231.</ref><ref>Lequien, Oriens Christ., II, 625: Gams, Series episcop., 462.</ref><ref>Gams, Series episcop., 462.</ref> He was one of the Arian Bishops at that Council. He eventually signed the Nicene Creed with the other Arian supporters, Zopyrus of Barca, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea.<ref>Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, op. cit., vol.IV, coll. 1221 e 1367.</ref><ref>Edward Gibbon. ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'', Chapter 21, (1776–88)</ref><ref>Jonathan Kirsch, "God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism", 2004.</ref><ref>Charles Freeman, The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, 2002.</ref> He was exiled with the other three Arian bishops.
He is also notable for confronting the anti-Christian emperor Julian the Apostate in 362 after going blind - in reply to Julian telling him: "Thy Galilean God will not heal thy sight." He replied: "I thank God for depriving me of the power of beholding thy face."<ref>Socr. iii. 12; Soz. v. 4; Tillem. vii. 332</ref>
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