ANATOLIUS, Bishop of Laodicea. - Flourished in the second half of the 3rd century. A native of Alexandria, he distinguished himself there for his extensive and profound literary and scientific culture. A Christian teacher in the Aristotelian school of Alexandria, he enjoyed considerable influence among his fellow citizens. During the siege laid by the Romans to the harbor district of the Bruchium, he succeeded in saving a great part of the inhabitants (it is probably the siege of 263 A.D.). Having then gone to Palestine, he was consecrated bishop by the bishop of Caesarea and designated to succeed him. But when he later went in 268 to the new Council of Antioch against Paul of Samosata, he happened to arrive at Laodicea, in Syria, where the bishop Eusebius, his compatriot and friend, had then died, and the inhabitants of that city forced him to remain among them as their bishop. We do not know when he died.
Eusebius, who gives us all these notices (Hist. eccl., VI, 32, 16-21), attributes to him a paschal computation and ten books of arithmetic. Of these there remain fragments that seem authentic (PG 10, 232-36; I. L. Heiberg, Anatolius sur les dix premiers nombres, Nâcon 1901); a Liber Anatolii de ratione paschali published in 1634 by Bouchier and then by Migne (PG 10, 209) was at one time recognized as his, at another denied; it seems that at least the substance may be his, subsequently updated and modified.
Bibliography6 worksBesides the cited Eusebius, and Eunapius, Vitae Sophist., 11 (ed. Boissonade), cf. O. Bardenhever, Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur,
BIBL.: Besides the cited Eusebius, and Eunapius, Vitae Sophist., 11 (ed. Boissonade), cf. O. Bardenhever, Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, II, Freiburg im Br. 1903, pp. 191-95; A. von Harnack, Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur, Die Chronologie, II, Leipzig 1904, pp. 75-79; id., Die Überlieferung, Leipzig 1893, pp. 436-37; G. Borghorst, De Anatolii fontibus. Diss. ph., Berlin 1905; H. I. Marrou, S. Augustin et la fin de la culture antique (Bibl. des Ecoles fr. d'Athènes et de Rome, 143) Paris 1938, p. 217 and n. 8; J. de Ghellinek, Qui sont les 12e TIMES ΑΕΤΟΥΣΙ de la lettre d'Arius?, in Miscellanea G. Mercati, I (Studi e testi, 121), Vatican City 1946, pp. 127-44.
Ferrua, Antonio. “Anatolio, vescovo di laodicea.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1162. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/anatolio-vescovo-di-laodicea.
MLA
Ferrua, Antonio. “Anatolio, vescovo di laodicea.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1162. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/anatolio-vescovo-di-laodicea.
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@incollection{ec1_anatolio_vescovo_di_laodicea,
author = {Ferrua, Antonio},
title = {Anatolio, vescovo di laodicea},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1162},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/anatolio-vescovo-di-laodicea}
}
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