FLORENZIO. — An anomean bishop of Constantinople who lived in the 4th century. The scant information concerning F. is derived from Philostorgius. The date of his birth and his origin are unknown. He appears in opposition to the official bishop Eudoxius, in the time of Julian the Apostate, when the anomeans established their own hierarchy in various cities. Under the emperor Valens, on the occasion of the rebellion of Procopius, which went so far as to occupy the capital, F. saved the leaders of the sect, Eunomius and Aetius. After that, nothing more is said of him. It is uncertain whether he should be identified with the F. who at first sided with Procopius, then betrayed him, and was killed together with him by Valens’s soldiers.
Parigi 1910, p. 374 ff.; X. Le Bachelet, Anonème e Arianisme, in DThC, I, II, cols. 1323 to 1836. Vincenzo Monachino