Ulfilas
Goth Arian bishop, missionary, theologian, and Bible translator
9 dated entries naming Ulfilas, drawn from 9 separate years between 310 CE and 500 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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4th century
- 310Wulfila, Gothic bishop and missionary (d. 383)source
- 330The Bible is translated into the Gothic language by Wulfila.source
- 340Wulfila evangelizes among the Goths for 7 years.source
- 346The Visigoths are converted to Arianism by Wulfila.source
- 348Wulfila escapes religious persecution by the Gothic chieftain Athanaric, obtains permission from Constantius II to migrate with his flock of converts to Moesia, and settles near Nicopolis ad Istrum (Bulgaria).source
- 360Council of Constantinople (360): Emperor Constantius II requests a church council, at Constantinople; both the eastern and western bishops attend the meeting. Ulfilas also attends the council and endorses the resulting creed. After the council several homoiousian bishops are deposed or banished, including Macedonius I of Constantinople and Cyril of Jerusalem.source
- 369Wulfila creates a Gothic alphabet composed of letters based on Greek and Roman letters, as well as some Germanic runes. He converts the Goths to Arian Christianity.source
- 383Ulfilas (or Wulfila), Gothic missionary and bishopsource
5th century
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- Arianism (2)
- Goths (2)
- Bible (2)
- Visigoths (1)
- Bulgaria (1)
- Moesia (1)
- Constantius II (1)
- Human migration (1)