Ulfilas, or Gothic Wulfila: little wolf or belonging to Wolf ( also Ulphilas.

Wulfila Glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Bishop Ulfilas.

Wulfila or Ulfilas was the son or grandson of Christian captives from Sadagolthina in Cappadocia.

The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet for writing the Gothic language, created in the 4th century by Ulfilas ( or Wulfila ) for the purpose of translating the Christian Bible.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

He brought Ulfilas into the Arian priesthood and sent the latter to convert the heathen Goths.

Romantic depiction of Ulfilas converting the Goths to Arianism.

The Goths had been converted with the assistance of Ulfilas ( a Goth ), made bishop on that account.

Ulfilas converted many among the Goths, preaching an Arian Christianity, which, when they reached the western Mediterranean, set them apart from their Orthodox neighbors and subjects.

The sources differ in how much they credit Ulfilas with the conversion of the Goths.

While theology of the Arians was declared a heresy at the First Council of Nicea in 325 AD, the missionary work of the bishop Ulfilas converted the pagan Goths to Arian Christianity in the 4th Century.

These Goths are known as Moeso-Goths, for whom Ulfilas made the Gothic translation of the Bible.

Ulfilas ' initial success in converting this Germanic people to an Arian form of Christianity was strengthened by later events.

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* Wulfila escapes religious persecution by the Gothic chieftain Athanaric and obtains permission from Constantius II to migrate with his flock of converts to Moesia and settled near Nicopolis ad Istrum ( Bulgaria ).

Meanwhile, the Goths were converted from paganism to Arian Christianity by the Gothic missionary Wulfila, who devised the Gothic alphabet to translate the Bible.

Initially pagan, the Goths were in the 4th century converted to Arian Christianity by the Gothic missionary Wulfila, who devised an alphabet to translate the Bible.

* Wulfila spreads evangelism among the Goths for 7 years.

The Bishop of the Goths Wulfila in the today's Bulgaria translated the Bible into Gothic in the mid-4th century.

In 337 or 341, Wulfila became the first bishop of the ( Christian ) Goths.

By 348, one of the ( Pagan ) Gothic kings ( reikos ) began persecuting the Christian Goths, and Wulfila and many other Christian Goths fled to Moesia Secunda ( in modern Bulgaria ) in the Roman Empire.

In the 4th century, the bishop Wulfila ( c 310-383 ) invented a script for the Gothic language, translated the Bible into Gothic, and converted the Goths to Arian Christianity.