Philostorgius
Sign in to savethumb|Epitome of Philostorgius' Church History by Photios I of Constantinople ([[British Library, 16th-century manuscript)]] Philostorgius (; 368 – c. 439 AD) was an Anomoean Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries.
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- Born
- 0368-00-00
- Died
- 0450-00-00
- Works
- 13
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- Ecclesiasticae historiae
- Eusebii pamphili, Socratis scholastici, Hermiae Sozomeni, Theodoriti et Evagrii
- Theodōritou episkopou Kyrou kai Euagriou Scholastikou Ekklēsiastikē historia
- Theodoriti Episcopi Cyri et Evagrii Scholastici Historia ecclesiastica
- Istoria bisericească
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- Born
- 368
- Died
- 450
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Place of birth
- Cappadocia
- Place of death
- Antakya
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Field of work
- history of Christianity
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- late antiquity
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thumb|Epitome of Philostorgius' Church History by Photios I of Constantinople ([[British Library, 16th-century manuscript)]] Philostorgius (; 368 – c. 439 AD) was an Anomoean Church historian of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Very little information about his life is available. He was born in Borissus, Cappadocia to Eulampia and Carterius, and lived in Constantinople from the age of twenty. He is said to have come from an Arian family, and in Constantinople soon attached himself to Eunomius of Cyzicus, who received much praise from Philostorgius in his work.