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Gregorius of Baetica, otherwise of Illiberis, so called because he was bishop of Illiberis or Illiberi
(now Elvira, near Granada), in the province of Baetica (now Andalusia), in Spain,
was an ecclesiastical writer of the fourth century. Jerome, who mentions hint
in his Chronicon (ad Ann. 371), describes him as a Spanish bishop, a friend of
Lucifer of Caralis (Cagliari), and a strenuous opponent of the Arians, from whom,
in the time of their ascendancy, he suffered much. The emperor Theodosius the
Great addressed an edict to Cynegius, praefect of the praetorium, desiring him
to defend Gregory and others of similar views from the injuries offered to them
by the heretics. Gregory was the author of divers treatises, among which was one
De Fide, which Jerome characterises as "elegans libellus". This work is supposed
by Quesnel, editor of the Codex Canonum Romanus, to be the third of the "tres
Fidei Formulae" contained in that work, and which bears an inscription ascribing
it improperly to Gregory Nazianzen. The work De Fide contra Arianos given in some
editions of the Bibliotheca Patrum, under the name of Gregory of Baetica is really
by Faustinus. The pseudo Flavius Dexter identifies this Gregory of Baetica with
Gregory, praefect of the praetorium in Gaul.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Dec 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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