Cyril had not long to wait for the hearing of his appeal.  In the year 359 the Eastern Bishops met at Seleucia in Isauria, and the Western at Ariminum.  Constantius had at first wished to convene a general Council of all the Bishops of the Empire, but this intention he was induced to abandon by representations of the long journeys and expense, and he therefore directed the two Synods then assembled at Ariminum and at Seleucia “the Rugged” to investigate first the disputes concerning the Faith, and then to turn their attention to the complaints of Cyril, and other Bishops against unjust decrees of deposition and banishment Soz. iv. 17..  This order of proceeding was discussed, and after much controversy adopted on the first day of meeting, the 27th of September Socrat. ii. 39..  On the second day Acacius and his friends refused to remain unless the Bishops already deposed, or under accusation, were excluded.  Theodoret relates that “ several friends of peace tried to persuade Cyril of Jerusalem to withdraw, but that, as he would not comply, Acacius left the assembly H. E. ii. 26..”  Three days afterwards, according to Sozomen, a third meeting was held at which the demand of Acacius was complied with; “for the Bishops of the opposite party were determined that he should have no pretext for dissolving the Council, which was evidently his object in order to prevent the impending examination of the heresy of Aëtius and of the accusations which had been brought against him and his partisans Sozom. iv. 22..”  A creed put forward by Acacius having been rejected, he refused to attend any further meetings, though repeatedly summoned to be present at an investigation of his own charges against Cyril.