Theognis of Nicaea

Theognis of Nicaea (Greek: Θέογνις) was a 4th-century Bishop of Nicaea, excommunicated after the First Council of Nicaea for not denouncing Arius and his nontrinitarianism strongly enough.

He is best known to history as an attendee present at the Council of Nicaea in 325.[1][2][3] He was one of the Arian Bishops at that Council. He eventually signed the Nicean Creed with the other Arian supporters, Zopyrus (Bishop of Barca), Eusebius of Nicomedia and Maris of Chalcedon.[4][5][6][7] He was exiled with the other three Arian bishops.

  1. ^ Gelzer, Patrum Nicaenorum nomina, 231.
  2. ^ Lequien, Oriens Christ., II, 625: Gams, Series episcop., 462.
  3. ^ Gams, Series episcop., 462.
  4. ^ Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, op. cit., vol.IV, coll. 1221 e 1367.
  5. ^ Edward Gibbons "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Chapter 21, (1776–88)
  6. ^ Jonathan Kirsch, "God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism", 2004.
  7. ^ Charles Freeman, The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, 2002.