Audentius

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Audentius (latin: Audentius) was bishop of Toledo (Hispania), according to tradition in the years 385-395 A.D. In the Catholic Encyclopedia (1912), the Count of Cedillo places his episcopate arround the year 376.

The historian Gennadius of Massilia mentions in De viris illustribus c.14 (ca. 480 AD) that Audentius wrote the book De fide adversus haereticos, in which he wrote against the Manichaeans, the Sabellians, the Arians, and, with especial energy, against the Photinians.

Its object was to show that the second person in the Trinity is co-eternal with the Father. The book has been lost.

In the book De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis (1494), abbot Johannes Trithemius styles Audentius as "vir in divinis scripturis exercitatum habens ingenium."

References

[Archidiócesis de Toledo: Los Arzobispos de Toledo] (in Spanish).
[IBERCRONOX: Obispado y Arzobispado de Toledo] (in Spanish).
William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, p. 418. — Boston, Little, Brown & co., 1870. [Text online at The Ancient Library].
Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912: [Toledo].

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