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Person/Group Osius of Cordoba ( view the social network for this person / group )
Exile Date 355-357 (from: --/--/355 to: --/--/357)
Sources Athanasius, historia Arianorum 42-6 (Opitz 2.1:206-10) Athanasius, apologia ad Constantium 27 (SC 56:118-9) Sozomenus, historia ecclesiastica 4.15 (NPNF) Collectio Avellana, epistula 2.32-5 (CSEL 35.1:15) https://archive.org/stream/epistulaeimperat01gnth#page/14/mode/2up

Locations view exile locations

Location of exile's previous office Corduba [Córdoba]
Location exiled from Corduba [Córdoba]
Location exiled to Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
Location(s) arrived at Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
Date of arrival 355-357 (from: --/--/355 to: --/--/357)
Relationship to location alien place
Type of location city
Reason for leaving recalled
Location(s) exile returned to Corduba [Córdoba]
Location of office after return

Activities in Exile

Activities Related to Doctrine
Died in exile? no
Reason for death
Writings in Exile yes
   
Title of writing Letter to the emperor Constantius
Genre correspondence
Extant? yes
Notes Preserved in Athanasius, historia Arianorum 44.
   

Legal details

Threat only no
Refuge from judicial proceedings no
Consequence of asylum no
Offenses exiled for/accused of Refusal to condemn Athanasius
Legal type of exile exilium, relegatio
Additional punishments
Intended duration permanent
Actual duration two years
Returned? yes
Reason for return signed second formula of Sirmium
Deposed by synod? no
Synod deposed by
Returned by synod? yes
Synod returned by Third Council of Sirmium 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)

Religious status, office and affiliation

Religious status before exile clerical
Religious status during exile ??
Religious status after return clerical
Clerical or ascetic office before exile bishop
Clerical or ascetic office during exile
Clerical or ascetic office after return bishop
Enforced rank change? n/a
Religious affiliation before exile
Religious affiliation during exile
Religious affiliation after return
Died in exile? no

Cult

Venerated as a saint? regarded as confessor by the Orthodox church
Date Date: Unknown
Cult site
Relics

Exile Relationships: Interactions

    Valens of Mursa

  • Interaction Date 355 (from: --/--/355 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile) Arian
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
    Yes

    • Ursacius of Singidunum

  • Interaction Date 355 (from: --/--/355 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile) Arian
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Responsible for exile (or exile threat)
    Yes

    • Constantius II

  • Interaction Date 355 (from: --/--/355 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location
    Office Emperor
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile) Arian
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) lay
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Responsible for exile (or exile threat) Correspondent
    Yes Yes (writer of letter)

    • Valens of Mursa

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile) Arian
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) unknown
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (Joint attendant of council)

    • Constantius II

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office Emperor
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile) Arian
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) lay
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Responsible for return Other Interaction Type
    Yes Yes (Joint attendant of council)

    • Deputies of the Eastern bishops and of other priests

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality allegiance
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (Joint attendant of council)

    • Liberius of Rome

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality support
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (Joint attendant of council)

    • Athanasius

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile) Nicaean
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality support
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (Joint attendant of council)

    • Alexander

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality support
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (Joint attendant of Council)

    • Severianus

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality allegiance
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (Joint attendant of council)

    • Crescens

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office presbyter
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality allegiance
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (Joint attendant of council)

    • Germinius of Sirmium

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile)
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (Joint attendant of council)

    • Partisans of Eudoxius at Antioch

  • Interaction Date after 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya]
    Office
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile) Aeatian
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) unknown
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes Sozomenus 4.15: 'For when Eudoxius and his partisans at Antioch, who favored the heresy of Aetius, received the letter of Hosius, they circulated the report that Liberius had renounced the term "consubstantial," and had admitted that the Son is dissimilar from the Father.'
    Correspondent
    Yes (receiver of letter)

    • Eudoxius of Antioch

  • Interaction Date after 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/--)
    Interaction Location Antiochia/Theoupolis [Antakya]
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile) Arian
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes Sozomenus 4.15: 'For when Eudoxius and his partisans at Antioch, who favored the heresy of Aetius, received the letter of Hosius, they circulated the report that Liberius had renounced the term "consubstantial," and had admitted that the Son is dissimilar from the Father.'
    Correspondent
    Yes (receiver of letter)

    • Ursacius of Singidunum

  • Interaction Date 357 (from: --/--/357 to: --/--/357)
    Interaction Location Sirmium [Sremska Mitrovica]
    Office Bishop
    Religious Affiliation (at time of relationship with exile) Arian
    Religious Status (at time of relationship with exile) cleric
    Relationship Quality conflict
    Notes
    Other Interaction Type
    Yes (Joint attendant of council)

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