Philostorgius

Philostorgius was born about 368 at Borissus in Cappadocia and belonged to the Eunomian (Anomoean) party, who held that the Son is unlike the Father in essence. He wrote a church history in twelve books, beginning with the dispute between Arius and Alexander. The work is lost apart from fragments; the best-known part is the epitome made by the patriarch Photius in the ninth century.

Dates

b. ca. 368; wrote ca. 425-433 (approximate)

See or city

Constantinople

Region

Thrace

Notes

Born at Borissus in Cappadocia and a follower of Eunomius, he wrote in Constantinople from the standpoint of the Eunomian (Anomoean) party, which the imperial church and later churches rejected. Dates are approximate.

Works

• Church History (epitome by Photius)Historia ecclesiastica · ca. 425-433 · CPG (number not yet checked)