Auxentius of Milan

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For his Arian namesake at Milan, see Auxentius of Durostorum.

Auxentius of Milan (fl. c. 355; died 374), was an Arian theologian and bishop of Milan.

Ambrose praised him for his skills in rhetoric, though he considered him "worse than a Jew"[1].

When Constantius II deposed the orthodox bishops who resisted his policies, Auxentius, a native of Cappadocia[2], was installed in the see of Milan, replacing Dionysius.

Auxentius was left undisturbed in his diocese after Constantius' death by the Emperors Julian Apostata, Jovian and Valentinian I.

Auxentius came to be regarded as the great opponent of the Nicene creed in the West. Auxentius was explicitely mentioned by name in the condemnatory decree of the synod (369) which Pope Damasus I convened in defence of the Nicene doctrine. His theological doctrines were attacked by Hilary of Poitiers[3], whose Liber contra Auxentium remains the chief source of information about him.

[edit] Bibliography

Michel Meslin, Les Ariens d'Occident, 345-430, Paris,1968.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Ambrose at CCEL.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ "The Anti-Arian Campaigns of Hilary of Poitiers and the Liber Contra Auxentium". Church History (61.1): pp. 7–22. March 1992. 

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