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Ulfilas, Arian bishop of the Goths, dies …
Years: 383 - 383
Ulfilas, Arian bishop of the Goths, dies in 383, leaving a translation of the Bible into the Gothic language: it is the oldest surviving Germanic literary text.
The sources differ in how much they credit Ulfilas with the conversion of the Goths.
Socrates Scholasticus gives Ulfilas a minor role, and instead attributes the mass conversion to the Therving chieftain Fritigern, who had adopted Arianism out of gratitude for the military support of the Arian emperor Valens.
Sozomen attributes the mass conversion primarily to Ulfilas, though he also acknowledges the role of Fritigern.
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- Thracia (Roman province)
- Thervingi (East Germanic tribe)
- Greuthungi (East Germanic tribe)
- Christianity, Arian
- Thrace, Diocese of
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
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Years: 383 - 383
Locations
People
Groups
- Thracia (Roman province)
- Thervingi (East Germanic tribe)
- Greuthungi (East Germanic tribe)
- Christianity, Arian
- Thrace, Diocese of
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
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Subjects
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Subregions