Heros of Arles

Heros was Bishop of Arles from 408 to 412. He was installed as bishop by the usurper Constantine III, and was deposed by Constantius III.[1]

Prosper of Aquitaine describes him in his Chronicle as "vir sanctus, et beati Martini discipulus".[2] He was installed as bishop in the face of local opposition.[1] Heros lost his see in the reprisals which followed the defeat and execution of Constantine III, and was replaced by Patroclus of Arles.[3]

Along with Lazarus, who had also been deposed as bishop of Aix-en-Provence by Constantius, he went into exile in Palestine. In 415 both Heros and Lazarus wrote a letter to the Council of Diospolis condemning Pelagianism; they wrote a second letter together to the Council of Carthage (416).[4]

  1. ^ a b M. Heinzelmann, "The 'affair' of Hilary of Arles (445) and Gallo-Roman identity in the fifth century", in John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton, Fifth-Century Gaul: A crisis of identity? (Cambridge: University Press, 1992), p. 244
  2. ^ Prosper, 1247, sub annos 412
  3. ^ Ralph W. Mathisen, Ecclesiastical Factionalism and Religious Controversy in Fifth-Century Gaul (Washington: Catholic University, 1989), p. 35
  4. ^ Mathisen, Ecclesiastical Factionalism, p. 37