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Basilius, bishop of Irenopolis

IRENOUPOLIS (Ancient city) ISAVRIA
Basilius, (Basileios and Basilios), commonly called Basil. Of Cilicia (ho Kilix), was the author of a history of the Church, of which Photius gives a short account (Cod. 42), a work against John of Scythopolis (Phot. Cod. 107), and one against Archelaus, bishop of Colonia in Armenia. (Suidas, s. v.) He lived under the emperor Anastasius, was presbyter at Antioch about 497 A. D., and afterwards bishop of Irenopolis in Cilicia.

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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