Saint Optatus | |
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| Church Father, Bishop of Melevis | |
| Died | 4th century |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church |
| Feast | 4 June |
Optatus, sometimes anglicized as Optate, was Bishop of Milevis, in Numidia, in the fourth century, remembered for his writings against Donatism.[1]
- ^ Edwards, M.W. (1997). Optatus: Against the Donatists. Translated Texts for Historians Vol. 27. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. xvi. ISBN 9780853237525.