GIORGIO, 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 because of his unworthy life. Also rejected by Bishop Eustathius of Antioch, he went to Arethusa. He was received by the Arian bishop Sophronius and, in 331, was made bishop of Laodicea; in this capacity he 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 Anomoean formula of Sirmium in 357, he wrote a letter to Basil of Ancyra urging him to work for the condemnation of Aetius, and he took part in the Council of Ancyra of 358, at which Homoiousianism was promulgated. He was also present at the Council of Seleucia in 359, after which no further news of him is available; he must have died shortly afterwards. Skilled in philosophy and dialectic, he also wrote some treatises against heretics, especially against the Manichaeans, and an oration in praise of Eusebius of Emesa.