Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century/Basilius of Cilicia

by Edmund Venables

Basilius of Cilicia, presbyter of Antioch and bp. of Irenopolis in Cilicia, c. 500; the author of an Ecclesiastical History in three books, from A.D. 450 to the close of Justin's reign. Photius speaks disparagingly of it (Cod. 42). He also wrote a violent book against Joannes Scythopolitanus, and Photius (Cod. 107) says its object was to oppose the doctrine of the union of the two natures in Christ.

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