Commentary Par XII 136-137

'St. John Chrysostom (i.e., in Greek his name means "golden-mouthed"), celebrated Greek father of the Church, born at Antioch c. 345, died at Comana in Pontus, 407.  He belonged to a noble family, and was first a lawyer; he afterward became a monk, in which capacity he so distinguished himself by his preaching that the Emperor Arcadius appointed him (in 398) patriarch of Constantinople.  His severity toward the clergy in his desire for reform made him an object of hatred to them, and led to his deposition (403) at the instance of Theophilus, patriarch of Alexandria, and the Empress Eudoxia, whose excesses he had publicly rebuked.  Sentence of exile was pronounced against him, but the people, to whom he had endeared himself by his preaching, rose in revolt, and he was reinstated in his office.  Shortly afterward, he was again banished (404), and he finally died in exile on the shores of the Black Sea.  He left nearly 1,000 sermons or homilies as evidence of his eloquence' ( Crisòstomo).