Hosius of Corduba

Ossius of Córdoba ( also: Hosius, Hozius, Ossios, of Cordova; * 257 probably in Cordoba (Spain ); † 357/58 in Córdoba) was Bishop of Córdoba, Father of the Church and one of the most prominent opponent of Arianism in the Western Church.

Life

Ossius was consecrated by 296 bishop. As a confessor he had suffered during the persecution of the emperor Maximian ( 303-305 ). Files Kundig is his participation in the Synod of Elvira 306

From 312-326 Ossius court bishop was in the entourage of the Emperor Constantine, whom he advised on issues of particular Donatists. 324 he was sent by the emperor as legate to the East to settle the Arian dispute. In this capacity he took part in 324 of a local synod in Alexandria and led 325 chairs the provincial synod in Antioch, the precursor of the first Council of Nicaea was.

Athanasius of Alexandria met during his second exile in Gaul along with Ossius.

In the Council of Serdica 343 Ossius chaired and wrote the files first. In the enzyklischen Epistle of the Council, he is mentioned as "a man of happy old age, Hosius, who is worthy because of his age, his Bekennertums and the many difficulties he 's been through, every worship " (quoted by Athanasius in Apologia contra Arianos ).

When Emperor Constantius II, the successor of the 337 deceased Constantine as emperor in the East, it urged that the Western bishops Athanasius condemned and should enter into communion with the Arians, refused to Ossius decided. Athanasius quoted in the Historia Arianorum a bold letter of protest against the imperial interference in the affairs of the Church, the Ossius wrote to the Emperor.

356 Ossius was quoted in a great age of Constantius after Sirmium, there imprisoned for a year and probably tortured until his resistance was broken and he signed the Arian creed of Sirmium, which was immediately published as " confession of Hosius " by the emperor. However, he still refused to condemn Athanasius. Then he was allowed to return to Spain. The Spanish Synod had no understanding of his actions, and condemned him for his apostasy from the Trinitarian doctrine to damnatio memoriae: The name of the Ossius of Córdoba was not included in the diptychs of his diocese.

About his death, which probably took place soon after, nothing more is known. Athanasius declared that he was dropped for a moment and had revoked on his deathbed.

Ossius is venerated by the Orthodox Church as " Ossius the Confessor " as a saint, but not of the Catholic Church. His feast day in the Orthodox Church is 27 August.