Quodvultdeus

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Saint Quodvultdeus
Portrait of Quodvultdeus, 5th-century mosaic, Catacombs of San Gennaro
Church Father and Bishop of Carthage
Died	~450 AD Neapolis, Western Roman Empire
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast	26 October (Roman calendar); 8 January (calendar of Carthage); 19 February (calendar of Naples, Eastern Orthodox)

Quodvultdeus (Latin for "what God wills", died c. 450 AD) was a fifth-century Church Father and Bishop of Carthage who was exiled to Naples. He was known to have been living in Carthage around 407 and became a deacon in 421 AD. He corresponded with Augustine of Hippo, who served as Quodvultdeus' spiritual teacher.^[1] Augustine also dedicated some of his writings to Quodvultdeus.^[1]

Quodvultdeus was exiled when Carthage was captured by the Vandals led by King Gaiseric, who followed Arianism. Tradition states that he and other churchmen (such as Gaudiosus of Naples) were loaded onto leaky ships that landed at Naples around 439 AD and Quodvultdeus established himself in Italy.^[1] He would go on to convert dozens of Arian Goths to the orthodox Christian faith during his lifetime.

One of the mosaic burial portraits in the Galleria dei Vescovi in the Catacombs of San Gennaro depicts Quodvultdeus.^[2]