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HOSIUS , or Osius (c. 257–359), See also:bishop of See also:Cordova, was See also:born about A.D. 257, probably at Cordova, although from a passage in See also:Zosimus it has sometimes been conjectured that he was believed by that writer to be a native of See also:Egypt. Elected to the see of Cordova before the end of the 3rd See also:century, he narrowly escaped martyrdom in the persecution of Maximian (303–305). In 305 or 306 he attended the See also:council of Illiberis or See also:Elvira (hisname appearing second in the See also:list of those See also:present), and upheld its severe canons concerning such points of discipline as the treatment of the lapsed and clerical marriages. In 313 he appears at the See also:court of See also:Constantine, being expressly mentioned by name in a constitution directed by the See also:emperor to Caecilianus of See also:Carthage in that See also:year. In 323 he was the See also:bearer and possibly the writer of Constantine's See also:letter to Bishop See also:Alexander of See also:Alexandria and See also:Arius his See also:deacon, bidding them cease disturbing the See also:peace of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; and, on the failure of the negotiations in Egypt, it was doubtless with the active concurrence of Hosius that the council of See also:Nicaea was convened in 325. He certainly took See also:part in its proceedings, and was one of the large number of " confessors " present; that he presided is a very doubtful assertion, as also that he was the See also:principal author of the Nicene Creed. Still he powerfully influenced the See also:judgment of the emperor in favour of the orthodox party. After a See also:period of quiet See also:life in his own See also:diocese, Hosius presided in 343 at the fruitless See also:synod of See also:Sardica, which showed itself so hostile to Arianism; and afterwards he spoke and wrote in favour of See also:Athanasius in such a way as to bring upon himself a See also:sentence of banishment to Sirmium (355)• From his See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile he wrote to See also:Constantius II. his only extant See also:composition, a letter not unjustly characterized by the See also:great See also:French historian See also:Sebastian See also:Tillemont as displaying gravity, dignity, gentleness, See also:wisdom, generosity and in fact all the qualities of a great soul and a great bishop. Subjected to continual pressure the old See also:man, who was near his hundredth year, was weak enough to sign the See also:formula adopted by the second synod of Sirmium in 357, which involved communion with the Arians but not the condemnation of Athanasius. He was then permitted to return to his diocese, where he died in 359.
See S. Tillemont, Memoires, vii. 300—321 (1700) ; See also:Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, vol. i.; H. M. Gwatkin, Studies of Arianism (See also:Cambridge, 1882, 2nd ed., 1900) ; A. W. W. See also:Dale, The Synod of Elvira (See also:London, 1882) ; and See also:article s.v. in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie (3rd ed., 1900), with bibliography.
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