Bishop Ulfilas, to escape religious persecution by…
369 CE
Bishop Ulfilas, to escape religious persecution by Gothic chief Athanaric, had in 348 obtained permission from Constantius II to immigrate with his flock of Arian Christian converts to Moesia and settle at Nicopolis ad Istrum, modern northern Bulgaria.
Here, Ulfilas translates the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language, establishing a Gothic alphabet writing system for this purpose.
Surviving fragments, in the University Library of Uppsala, are known as the Codex Argenteus.