Eusebius of Nicomedia

Attested. The career, the exile, the baptism, and the role at Tyre are standard. The precise line between creed and anathema is what the sources do not tell the same way.

Eusebius supported Arius. He did not refuse his signature in the flat way Secundus and Theonas did. A letter preserved by Socrates says that he and Theognis subscribed the creed but not in the sense of the anathema. Other reports compress this. Within a few months Constantine exiled them. They were later recalled. Eusebius then worked to restore Arius and to remove Athanasius. He led the case at Tyre in 335. He baptized Constantine in 337, became bishop of Constantinople, and died in 341. He is not Eusebius of Caesarea.

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