Basil of Caesarea

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Basil, one of the Cappadocians with Gregory of Nazianzus and Gregory of Nyssa, organized monastic communities and wrote on the Holy Spirit. His see is Caesarea in Cappadocia, not the coastal Caesarea of Eusebius. He helped turn the Nicene cause into a workable eastern theology: one God, three hypostases. He died in 379, two years before Constantinople, so he cast no vote there. His friends carried the argument into that council. He is not Basil of Ancyra.

Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia whose rules still guide Orthodox monasticism. He built a hospital complex (the Basileias) and defended the Spirit's divinity.

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