GEORGE, Arian bishop of LAODICEA. — A native of Alexandria, where he was a priest at the beginning of the Arian controversy, he was deposed by Bishop Alexander for his unworthy conduct. Rejected also by Bishop Eustathius of Antioch, he went to Arethusa. He was welcomed by the Arian bishop Sophronius and in 331 was made bishop of Laodicea, and as such took part in the Council of Tyre of 335 which deposed St. Athanasius.
He also attended the Councils of Jerusalem in the same year and of Antioch in 341. At the Catholic Council of Sardica in 343 he was deposed. After the promulgation of the second anonymous formula of Sirmium in 357, he wrote a letter to Basil of Ancyra urging him to work for the condemnation of Aetius, and took part in the Council of Ancyra in 358 at which the doctrine of *homoiousion* was promulgated. He was also present at the Council of Seleucia in 359, after which no further news of him survives; he must have died soon after. Well versed in philosophy and dialectic, he also wrote pamphlets against heretics and especially against the Manichees, and a discourse in praise of Eusebius of Emesa.