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Gregory of Elvira

Gregorius Iliberritanus

Gregory was bishop of Elvira (near Granada) and a steadfast defender of the Nicene faith against the Arians. He is generally thought to be the author of the Tractatus Origenis, twenty homilies on Scripture once attributed to Origen, and of the work On the Orthodox Faith against the Arians.

Dates
d. after 392 (approximate)
See or city
Elvira (Illiberis)
Region
Spain
Also known as
Gregorius Baeticus; Gregory of Baetica
Notes
Bishop of Elvira; sympathetic to the Luciferians, he refused communion with those who accepted the homoian creed of Ariminum. Jerome (De viris illustribus 105) says he was still living in 392.

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