Person
Basil of Ancyra
died about 364
Bishop of Ancyra and Homoiousian leader
Attested. The 358 program and the 360 deposition are well reported. No Seleucia roll call shows every man who stood with him.
Basil of Ancyra led the Homoiousian party. Around the council at Ancyra in 358 he taught that the Son is homoiousios, of like substance with the Father, against both the Nicene word homoousios and the Anomoean claim that the Son is unlike the Father. That party comes decades after Nicaea. It was not a compromise drafted in 325. The majority at Seleucia in 359 stood with his line. The Homoian council at Constantinople in 360 deposed him. Athanasius, in De Synodis (359), argued that bishops who said 'like in substance' and still denied that the Son is a creature could be reconciled with Nicaea. He is not Basil of Caesarea.
Places
Councils
- Seleucia (359)
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Catalog editions
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