EUPHRATES. - Bishop of Cologne. In 344 he was sent by the emperor Constans, together with Vincent, bishop of Capua, to Antioch to obtain from Constantius the return of St. Athanasius. During his stay in the city E. was the victim of a vile attack plotted against him by the bishop Stephen, who was deposed for this reason. The spurious acts of a council held at Cologne in 346 report that E. embraced the error of Photinus by asserting that Jesus Christ is a mere man; accused by his faithful, he was condemned and deposed by a synod of all the bishops of Gaul. This report is not reliable.
BIBL.: S. Atanasio, Hist. Arianorum, 20 sp.; Teodoroto. Hist. eccl., 11, 7; Tillemont, VI, Venice 1732, pp. 761-64; L. Duchesne, Pastes episcopatus de l'ancienne Gaulo, I, Paris 1907, p. 361; III, ibid. 1915, p. 178.
Amore, Agostino. “Eufrata.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 790–791. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/eufrata.
MLA
Amore, Agostino. “Eufrata.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 790–791. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/eufrata.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_eufrata,
author = {Amore, Agostino},
title = {Eufrata},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {790--791},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/eufrata}
}
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