Optatus
Also known as Optatus of Milevis, St Optatus
Optatus, sometimes anglicized as Optate, was Bishop of Milevis, in Numidia, in the fourth century, remembered for his writings against Donatism.
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- The work of St. Optatus, bishop of Milevis, against the Donatists
- Traité contre les donatistes
- Traité contre les donatistes
- Delibatio Africanæ historiæ ecclesiasticæ
- De schismate Donatistarum libri septem
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De Schismate Donatistarum Libri Septem: Ad Manuscriptos Codices Et Veteres Editiones Collati; Et Innumeris In Locis Emendati; Quibus accessere Historia Donatistarum Una Cum Monumentis Veteribus Ad Eam Spectantibus: Nec Non Geographia Episcopalis Africae. Opera & studio M. Lud. Ell. Dupin... Cum ejusdem notes, ut & Gab. Albaspinaei, Mer. Casauboni, Casp. Barthii, & aliorum Singulis Paginis In Hac Nova Editione Subjectis
Sancti Optati Milevitani Episcopi Opera Cvm Observationibvs Et Notis Integris G. Albaspinæi Avrelianens. Episcopi Francisci Balduini J. C. Gasp. Barthii, Merici Causaboni, &c. Philippus Priorius Annotationes & Præfationem adjecit. Accedvnt Facundi Hermianensis Episcopi Pro Tribus Capitulis Concilii Calched. Libri XII. Cum Annotationibus Jacobi Sirmondi S. J. Et alia ejusdem Facundi Opuscula. Huic quoque Editioni adjectæ sunt Gab. Alba Spinæi Observationes Ecclesiasticæ ...
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6 sectionsContents
- Biography and context
- Doctrine
- Veneration
- The Constantinian Letters in the ''Appendix'' of ''Against the Donatists''
- Sources
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Optatus, sometimes anglicized as Optate, was Bishop of Milevis, in Numidia, in the fourth century, remembered for his writings against Donatism.
==Biography and context== Augustine of Hippo suggests that Optatus was a convert: "Do we not see with how great a booty of gold and silver and garments Cyprian, doctor suavissimus, came forth out of Egypt, and likewise Lactantius, Victorinus, Optatus, Hilary?" (De doctrina Christiana, xl).
