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

Ulfilas | Wulfila converts the Goths to Christianity

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.

Ihre was also the first to demonstrate that the text of the Codex argenteus manuscript in the Uppsala University Library is identical to the Gothic Bible translation by Bishop Wulfila.

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.

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

* 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, several Germanic tribes were converted to Arian Christianity by the missionary Wulfila, who devised an alphabet to translate the Bible into the Gothic language.

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.

* The Bible is translated into the Gothic language by Wulfila.

* Wulfila, Gothic bishop and missionary ( d. 383 )

* Wulfila creates a Gothic alphabet composed of letters based on Greek and Roman letters, as well as some Germanic runes.

Wulfila also attends the council and endorse the resulting creed.

* The Visigoths are converted to Arianism by Wulfila.

* 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.

:* Wulfila O. P .- Cambridge, 1895

Between 348 and 383, Wulfila translated the Bible into the Gothic language.

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.

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.

The letter of Auxentius, a 4th-century Arian bishop of Milan, regarding the missionary Ulfilas, gives the clearest picture of Arian beliefs on the nature of the Trinity: God the Father (" unbegotten "), always existing, was separate from the lesser Jesus Christ (" only-begotten "), born before time began and creator of the world.

However, during the time of Arianism's flowering in Constantinople, the Gothic convert Ulfilas ( later the subject of the letter of Auxentius cited above ) was sent as a missionary to the Gothic barbarians across the Danube, a mission favored for political reasons by emperor Constantius II.

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

Historically, the term was probably influenced by Gothic haiþi " dwelling on the heath ", appearing as haiþno in Ulfilas ' bible as " gentile woman " ( translating the " Hellene " in ).

Ulfilas was ordained a bishop by Eusebius of Nicomedia and returned to his people to work as a missionary.

According to them, Ulfilas was an orthodox Christian for most of his early life.

Auxentius was clearly the closest to Ulfilas, and so presumably had access to more reliable information.

The creed of Ulfilas, which concludes a letter praising him written by his foster-son and pupil Auxentius of Durostorum ( modern Silistra ) on the Danube, who became bishop of Milan, distinguishes God the Father (" unbegotten ") from God the Son (" only-begotten "), who was begotten before time and who created the world, and the Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Father and the Son:

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.

This was the first book written in a Germanic language, and for this reason at least one historian refers to Ulfilas as " the father of Germanic literature ".

But he was not only the first who enabled the learned world to make the acquaintance of the Gothic translation of the Gospels in Gothic script, but also the first who connected this version with the name of Ulfilas:

The New Testament was translated into Gothic in the 4th century by Ulfilas.

During the reign of Constantius II, the Arian Gothic convert Ulfilas was consecrated a bishop by Eusebius of Nicomedia and sent to missionize his people.

Ulfilas is thought to have consciously chosen to avoid the use of the older Runic alphabet for this purpose, as it was heavily connected with heathen beliefs and customs.

( In fact they had been Christianized by the Arian Ulfilas, but Leander's theme was reconciliation.

Historically, the term was influenced by the Gothic term * haiþi, appearing as haiþno in Ulfilas ' bible for translating gunē Hellēnis, " Greek ( i. e. gentile ) woman " of Mark 7: 26, probably with an original meaning " dwelling on the heath ", but it was also suggested by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Mythologie ( Teutonic Mythology ) that it was chosen because of its similarity to Greek ethne " gentile " or even that it is not related to " heath " at all, but rather a loan from Armenian hethanos, itself loaned from Greek ethnos.

400 ), an Arian Christian theologian, adopted son of Ulfilas.

The tribes we consider Gothic were nominally Arians during the period of time when Ulfilas translated the Christian bible into Gothic, meaning that they followed the teachings of Arius about the person and nature of Jesus Christ.

There, Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic language.

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 Arian sources depict Ulfilas as an Arian from childhood.

There the Gothic bishop Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek to Gothic, creating the Gothic alphabet in the process.