Wulfila
Wulfila (or Ulfila , often spelled Ulfilas , born v. 311 - † v. 383) was of Greek origin , more precisely cappadocian.
His/her hellenized grandparents, cappadocians, made the expenses of the raids Goths in Asia Mineure at the end of the 3rd century and Wulfila was born in their kingdom, on banks of the Black Sea.
Having learned the language from its Masters as of more the young age, it spoke as the Greek , as it learned how to write being probably intended for a career of clerk.
Its talents were worth to him to be an ambassador for his people of adoption near the Roman Empire of the East. It came there into contact with the bishop arien Eusèbe de Nicomédie, who devoted it bishop as of the year 341.
In order to évangéliser Goths, it was harnessed to translate the Bible into language Gotique, using an alphabet which it invented for this purpose. Become the apostle of these barbarian people , it went to Constantinople on several occasions, in particular with a council on the Arianisme, in 360, and 383 to support Arianisme against the emperor Théodose I {{er}}.
He died little of time afterwards.
One is unaware of precisely the circumstances of the conversion of Wulfila to the arianism: this heresy was the dominant religion under the emperor Constance. In any case, Wulfila showed a dedicated arien until the end of its life and it is under its influence that Goths, then others Germanic Peuples Eastern adopted this version of the Christianisme.
It is thus, though indirectly, with him which is due resurgences of the arianism, in Occident, with the V {{E}} - VII {{E}} centuries, via Goths, the Vandales and the Burgondes, then Lombards.
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