Hilary of Arles

Hilary of Arles ( * 401, † 449 ) was a late antique bishop in the southern French town of Arles in the 5th century.

Hilary was converted by his uncle, the bishop Honoratus, to Christianity. After he had sold his inheritance, he went to a strict ascetic monastery on the Îles de Lérins Abbey Lérins. Around the year 430 he was elected by Honoratus allegedly because his mental abilities and the good life change for the successor.

Hilary tried asceticism in the clergy to promote and fought the Augustinian doctrine of predestination. His sermons were of a more simple style. After he had engaged with Pope Leo I in a fight, he was deposed by him in the year 445 as a bishop.

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