FEBADIUS. – Anti-Arian polemicist, bishop of Agennum (Agen, department of Lot-et-Garonne) in Gaul, wrote after the publication of the second formula of Sirmium a book Contra Arianos (PL 20, 13-30) around 357-58, addressed to the bishops of Gaul, drawing largely on Tertullian’s Adversus Praxean and Hilary, with the result that the bishops condemned the second formula of Sirmium. He was still alive in 392 (Jerome, De civ. ill., 108).
Bibl.: For the sources of F.’s book, ed. B. Mars, Zwei Zeugen für die Herkunft... der sog. Otto historicum s. Hilari, in Thiel. Quartalschrift, 88 (1900), p. 392 sq.; A. Feder, Studien zur Hilarius von Poitiers, II, Vienna 1902, p. 190 sq.; The anti-Arian book De fide has been erroneously attributed to F. by A. Wilmart, La tradition des opusculi dogmatiques de Feodatus, Gregorio Hilberitatus, Faustinus (Staatsgeschichtlicher Kanz., Akademie der Wiss., Phil. Hist. Classe, 150), Vienna 1908. Enk Peterson.